A city constructed by racism: Los Angeles

Demarion Washington, 8, left, drinks juice in front of his home as Justin Scott, 8, leaps from a porch at the Jordan Downs Housing Projects in Watts, Calif. on June 5.
Source: Los Angeles Times, 2017

Residential segregation based on origin and “ethnicity” is a distinguishing feature that has long been established in U.S. cities. Residential segregation is the degree to which two or more groups live separately from each other in different parts of the urban space, it is a physical separation from these groups. This residential segregation can also take the form of sorting groups of populations in different…