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Mattapan, Dorchester, Roxbury, Chelsea, etc and not exceptionally literate or educated. But there is also a large immigrant community with very low homicide rates.
Mattapan, Dorchester, Roxbury, Chelsea, etc and not exceptionally literate or educated. But there is also a large immigrant community with very low homicide rates.
It's the elephant in the room between low income AA communites and low income non-AA communities.
There's lots of neighborhoods that aren't exceptionally literate or educated on a per capita basis, but it's by and large AA ones that drive homicide rates.
It's the elephant in the room between low income AA communites and low income non-AA communities.
There's lots of neighborhoods that aren't exceptionally literate or educated on a per capita basis, but it's by and large AA ones that drive homicide rates.
Are Mattapan, Dorchester, and Roxbury non-AA communities now? I’ll grant that Mattapan has a lot of Caribbean people and Dot has a lot of Irish and Viet, but Roxbury is still mostly AA, no?
Are Mattapan, Dorchester, and Roxbury non-AA communities now? I’ll grant that Mattapan has a lot of Caribbean people and Dot has a lot of Irish and Viet, but Roxbury is still mostly AA, no?
Overall Boston’s Black population is ~38% foreign born so it’s probably 55-56% 1st/2nd generation American. So the city is probably like 11% African American
Overall Boston’s Black population is ~38% foreign born so it’s probably 55-56% 1st/2nd generation American. So the city is probably like 11% African American
The city's only about 12.5% Irish as far as I can tell (using this and this), but I don't see people calling South Boston a non-Irish community. Furthermore, that 11% is especially concentrated in Roxbury and to lesser extents Mattapan and Dorchester. It's disingenuous to call those neighborhoods "non-AA" communities.
There's lots of neighborhoods that aren't exceptionally literate or educated on a per capita basis, but it's by and large AA ones that drive homicide rates.
As other posters have alluded to, it's the large Black immigrant population that has very low homicide rates. Same thing in NYC...in spite of low income. But Baltimore, Philly, SE DC, Southside Chicago, Jackson MS, St. Louis, Cleveland, Memphis, New Orleans, Detroit have domestic-born Black neighborhoods with much higher rates. Oakland has plenty of immigrants, but not in the homicide hot spots in West and East Oakland. The DC area has plenty of immigrants, but many are in very low homicide Arlington/Alexandria across the river. Alexandria has ~200k people, 10k people per square mile, 22% Black, but just 1-2 homicides/year.
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