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Reversing Racial Segregation in U.S. Cities: Making a Magic Strategy Mindy Thompson Fullilove, MD, Hon AIA The New School George Engel, 1980 Dr. Alexander Leighton’s endpoints of the social integration continuum Disintegration Integration • Few and weak leaders • Small number of strong leaders • Small, fractured • Large networks that can pass networks information • Differing sentiments • Shared sentiments • Concern for self, “I” • Commitment to collective good, • Higher rates of illness “WE” and social pathology • Rates of illness comparatively • Illness more difficult to low manage • Management facilitated All data from: Watkins, 2000 Destabilization of Harlem, New York *for year 1953 †Multi-drug resistant tuberculosis Year Key Events Population Housing Labor Force Two- Infant Mortality Units Participation Parent (rate per 1000 births) Families Harlem Manhattan Harlem Manhattan 1950 Urban 264,000 1,960,101 69,962 61% 72% 40* 30* renewal 1960 Loss of 232,792 1,698,281 87,380 63% 65% 49 33 industry 1970 Planned 182,779 1,539,233 73,703 54% 58% 40 22 shrinkage 1980 AIDS and 121,898 1,428,285 63,570 43% 22% 26 14 crack era 1990 MDR TB† 115,413 1,487,536 54,090 49% 16% 29 11 All data from: Watkins, 2000 Destabilization of Harlem, New York *for year 1953 †Multi-drug resistant tuberculosis Year Key Events Population Housing Labor Force Two- Infant Mortality Units Participation Parent (rate per 1000 births) Families Harlem Manhattan Harlem Manhattan 1950 Urban 264,000 1,960,101 69,962 61% 72% 40* 30* renewal 1960 Loss of 232,792 1,698,281 87,380 63% 65% 49 33 industry 1970 Planned 182,779 1,539,233 73,703 54% 58% 40 22 shrinkage 1980 AIDS and 121,898 1,428,285 63,570 43% 22% 26 14 crack era 1990 MDR TB† 115,413 1,487,536 54,090 49% 16% 29 11 All data from: Watkins, 2000 Destabilization of Harlem, New York *for year 1953 †Multi-drug resistant tuberculosis Year Key Events Population Housing Labor Force Two- Infant Mortality Units Participation Parent (rate per 1000 births) Families Harlem Manhattan Harlem Manhattan 1950 Urban 264,000 1,960,101 69,962 61% 72% 40* 30* renewal 1960 Loss of 232,792 1,698,281 87,380 63% 65% 49 33 industry 1970 Planned 182,779 1,539,233 73,703 54% 58% 40 22 shrinkage 1980 AIDS and 121,898 1,428,285 63,570 43% 22% 26 14 crack era 1990 MDR TB† 115,413 1,487,536 54,090 49% 16% 29 11 All data from: Watkins, 2000 Destabilization of Harlem, New York *for year 1953 †Multi-drug resistant tuberculosis Year Key Events Population Housing Labor Force Two- Infant Mortality Units Participation Parent (rate per 1000 births) Families Harlem Manhattan Harlem Manhattan 1950 Urban 264,000 1,960,101 69,962 61% 72% 40* 30* renewal 1960 Loss of 232,792 1,698,281 87,380 63% 65% 49 33 industry 1970 Planned 182,779 1,539,233 73,703 54% 58% 40 22 shrinkage 1980 AIDS and 121,898 1,428,285 63,570 43% 22% 26 14 crack era 1990 MDR TB† 115,413 1,487,536 54,090 49% 16% 29 11 Urban renewal Stage-State Model MODEL of Community Collapse Deindustrialization confusion Planned shrinkage disorder Gentrification non-sense COLLECTION Band getting ready to march in the Hill District. Urban renewal demolishing the Lower Hill. The loss of physical infrastructure. Photo taken about 1940 by Charles Harris Photo taken about 1960 by Charles Harris Photo taken about 1998 by Mindy Fullilove “The closeness of the houses created a “Neighbors were no longer people you “When [Shanika] was a child, ‘everybody strong sense of community and shared shared your life with because you knew cared about everybody back then. Now public life, and the inhabitants of a their families, their churches, their work, everybody’s for their self. Now it’s just - I’m particular block knew each other well and and if they treated their neighbors well over scared for my boys now. Because it’s watched out for each other’s children.. time; neighbors now were often strangers horrible now...You don’t see kids outside ‘We knew each other, the neighbors knew next door who were tied to the ‘little block,’ anymore just to play...’” us, they’d look out for us, it’s much and no attachment to its inhabitants.” different than it is now... we weren’t afraid From Eva-Maria Simms, in Humanistic Psychologist, 2008 of anything.’” Simms, Period 1 Simms, Period 2 Simms, Period 3 1930 - 1960 1960 - 1980 1980 - 2004 Urban renewal and other city, People also lost jobs as industry left. Drugs became the state, and federal policies tore the new employer and the new solace. The government ignored neighborhood apart. epidemics of addiction, but started mass incarceration. “Stand by me” “What’s going on?” ”Fuck the police” “For a long time, I have been trying to mobilize our leaders so that the cities, where our money and brainpower are concentrated, innovate for better functioning. What is the problem we must solve? It is the fracture that exists between the wealthy neighborhoods and the others… “But paradoxically, if we want to improve life in those neighborhoods, we can’t just treat the neighborhoods… we must treat the whole city. We must eliminate the fracture.” Michel Cantal-Dupart Colloque Triville, 1993 What is a ”magic strategy?” Human ecologists Rodrick Wallace and Deborah Wallace have argued that “magic strategies” – multi- system, multi-scale health promotions – fit best with the basic biology of people and offer the most hope for the future. These are interventions that address the large-scale social inequalities and injustices, are sensitive to local culture, and include the voices of all the people. 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