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RAISIN IN THE SUN A Raisin in the Sun | Racism in Housing Mapping Prejudice and Mapping Inequalities websites Mapping Prejudice is a project headed up at the University of Minnesota. Their goal is to educate people about what housing covenants are and their long-term impact. Click to their website here; go to their "What is a Covenant" section to answer these questions: Mapping Prejudice 1. How do they define covenants? And what are at least three different groups that they targeted? Racial covenants are clauses that were inserted into property deeds to prevent people who were not White from buying or occupying land. Chinese, Turkish, and Negros. 2. What year was the first housing covenant in Minneapolis? And according to the website, how segregated was Minneapolis at that time? 3. They note that housing covenants were the "brainchild" of whom? 4. A) What year did the NAACP get the Supreme Court to declare that they were not enforceable? B) What year did Minnesota start prohibiting people from including them? C) What year did they finally become “explicitly illegal"? A) B) C) 5. We don't have these housing covenants anymore - so why do they matter? What are the two different broad reasons they talk about in this article? 6. What statistic did they give about accumulated wealth in black and white families? Mapping Inequality This same group is mapping urban neighborhoods around the nation and documenting what the housing covenants actually said. Check out their interactive map by clicking here, to answer the following questions. This map is also linked on the About Us page of the Mapping Prejudice site. A - "Best" B - "Still Desirable" C - "Definitely Declining" D - "Hazardous" Click around on the map of Minneapolis and read some of the descriptions of the neighborhoods at the left. Pick one that you find interesting to write about here. 1. Where is it on the map? What's its letter/number designation? 2. What information was written about this neighborhood? (you can summarize or paraphrase as needed) 3. What about this one did you find interesting? Reflection: Reflect on playwright Lorraine Hansberry's childhood experience with housing covenants, the Younger family's treatment from Mr. Lindner, and the information from these websites you've examined. In at least 5 sentences, please share your thoughts. Brooklyn Center New Brighton ins MIC Crystal Golden Valley St. Louis Parl Edina Richfield Minneapolis MINNEAPOLIS

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