Coined by economists Anne Case and Angus Deaton in 2015, "Deaths of Despair" refers to the alarming increasing mortality rates related to drugs, alcohol, and suicide, especially among less-educated white American males who blame Women's Rights and BIPOC instead of OPEC.
Gentrification is a clash between the power of private capital and government policy and the power of people in targeted communities to preserve their homes and heritage. Historically used against communities of color it is now being used to displace blue collar white Americans! The United States the Black community once shouted from the rooftops, must reckon with the racism built into its housing system in order to ensure that all Americans have the opportunity to build wealth. But what happens when whiteness is codified out of existence by expanding it in the name of maintaining a demographic advantage because of the reality of racism in its connection to power? The USA is preparing to accept at least 5 million of the 31 million displaced Ukrainians and double that number of "others" that can be listed as white according to the new census requirements. Prior studies suggest that middle-income white Americans are more likely to move to predominately white, low-income neighborhoods than their black counterparts who are upwardly mobile into black enclaves that are insulated from a lot of economic downturns due to centuries of knowledge in dealing with economic oppression.
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