Post by ck4829 on Nov 30, 2017 10:50:45 GMT
While California is often regarded as one large, liberal utopia, the Golden State does not always shine when it comes to racial equity, according to Advancement Project California, a civil rights group. The group has created Race Counts, an interactive web tool that analyzes the unequal burdens shouldered throughout the state. This project looks at seven key quality-of-life measures—economic opportunity, healthcare access, education, housing, democracy, crime and justice, and healthy built environments—and shows how minority communities fare on each.
Race Counts maps out these variables in each of California’s 58 counties. Click into Monterey County, for example, and you will learn that African American youth who live there are three times more likely to face truancy arrests than their white counterparts. In Fresno County, white residents are employed in managerial positions at double the rate of black and Asian residents and triple the rate of Latinos and Native Americans. Black residents are 15 times more likely to be incarcerated than white residents in Santa Clara County, the heart of Silicon Valley.
John Kim, the executive director of Advancement Project California, came up with the idea to map inequality by race after seeing the results of the organization’s previous mapping project, healthycity.org, which focused on neighborhoods in Los Angeles. Using the map, Kim could see how certain communities were disparately affected by issues like gun violence.
“Every neglected neighborhood [had] high concentrations of people of color, but we weren’t talking about race [before],” he said. “We were talking about Zip codes and socioeconomic status, but the most common denominator was race. Over time, we decided that not having race on the table for the conversation meant we were missing way too many important dynamics and key factors for change.”
www.citylab.com/equity/2017/11/mapping-racial-disparities-in-the-golden-state/546149/?utm_source=twb
Race Counts maps out these variables in each of California’s 58 counties. Click into Monterey County, for example, and you will learn that African American youth who live there are three times more likely to face truancy arrests than their white counterparts. In Fresno County, white residents are employed in managerial positions at double the rate of black and Asian residents and triple the rate of Latinos and Native Americans. Black residents are 15 times more likely to be incarcerated than white residents in Santa Clara County, the heart of Silicon Valley.
John Kim, the executive director of Advancement Project California, came up with the idea to map inequality by race after seeing the results of the organization’s previous mapping project, healthycity.org, which focused on neighborhoods in Los Angeles. Using the map, Kim could see how certain communities were disparately affected by issues like gun violence.
“Every neglected neighborhood [had] high concentrations of people of color, but we weren’t talking about race [before],” he said. “We were talking about Zip codes and socioeconomic status, but the most common denominator was race. Over time, we decided that not having race on the table for the conversation meant we were missing way too many important dynamics and key factors for change.”
www.citylab.com/equity/2017/11/mapping-racial-disparities-in-the-golden-state/546149/?utm_source=twb