{"id":20648,"date":"2022-10-31T08:10:01","date_gmt":"2022-10-31T12:10:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/?p=20648"},"modified":"2022-10-31T20:59:51","modified_gmt":"2022-11-01T00:59:51","slug":"how-racially-segregated-is-boston-today-how-safe-would-a-black-person-be-in-southie-or-a-white-person-in-roxbury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2022\/10\/31\/how-racially-segregated-is-boston-today-how-safe-would-a-black-person-be-in-southie-or-a-white-person-in-roxbury\/","title":{"rendered":"How racially segregated is Boston today? How safe would a black person be in Southie, or a white person in Roxbury?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/aw10312022-03.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"320\" height=\"314\" src=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/aw10312022-03.jpg\" alt=\"How racially segregated is Boston today? How safe would a black person be in Southie, or a white person in Roxbury?\" class=\"wp-image-20647\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/aw10312022-03.jpg 320w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/aw10312022-03-300x294.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>How racially segregated is Boston today? How safe would a black person be in Southie, or a white person in Roxbury?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Sadly, quite segregated. In 2019, Boston was 18th (of 113) of the most segregated cities >200,000 pop., according to the Othering &amp; Belonging Institute at Berkeley (bit.ly\/SegregationUCB). The percentages of Black residents in Southie and white residents in Roxbury are low (see Analyze Boston data: bit.ly\/BostonDemoData). &#8220;Safe&#8221; is hard to define, but racially motivated hate crimes rates in Massachusetts haven&#8217;t changed much recently.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sadly, quite segregated. In 2019, Boston was 18th (of 113) of the most segregated cities >200,000 pop., according to the Othering &amp; Belonging Institute at Berkeley (bit.ly\/SegregationUCB). The percentages of Black residents in Southie and white residents in Roxbury are low (see Analyze Boston data: bit.ly\/BostonDemoData). &#8220;Safe&#8221; is hard to define, but racially motivated hate &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2022\/10\/31\/how-racially-segregated-is-boston-today-how-safe-would-a-black-person-be-in-southie-or-a-white-person-in-roxbury\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;How racially segregated is Boston today? How safe would a black person be in Southie, or a white person in Roxbury?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20648"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20648\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20653,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20648\/revisions\/20653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}