Not in my neighborhood
by Antero Pietila · first published 2010
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Baltimore is the setting for (and typifies) one of the most penetrating examinations of bigotry and residential segregation ever published in the United States. Antero Pietila shows how continued discrimination practices toward African Americans and Jews have shaped the cities in which we now live. Eugenics, racial thinking, and white supremacist attitudes influenced even the federal government's actions toward housing in the 20th century, dooming American cities to ghettoization. This all-American tale is told through the prism of Baltimore, from its early suburbanization in the 1880s to the
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…within DC (not covered by the article) where Feds preclear the packages of any hazardous materials. Meanwhile, Amazon should fess up and not provide Prime memberships to those zipcodes. source: - (Not in My Neighborhood: How Bigotry Shaped a Great American City, Antolia Pietila;)[https://www.amazon.com/Not-My-Neighborhood-Bigotry-American/...] - (APOGuide: USPS, Guide for AAFES Suppliers)[https://www.scribd.com/document/798340054/apoguide]
on “DC Sues Amazon for 'Secretly' Excluding Zip Codes from Prime Delivery Benefits” ↗This reminds me of an interesting story from Not In My Neighborhood, a history of residential and institutional segregation in Baltimore. Baltimore in many ways had three-way segregation -- black, white, and Jewish -- with Realtors for all three communities refusing…
on “Jewish problems” ↗