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Blockbusting and Dorchester, Boston

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Difference between Blockbusting and Dorchester, Boston

Blockbusting vs. Dorchester, Boston

Blockbusting is a business process of U.S. real estate agents and building developers to convince white property owners to sell their house at low prices, which they do by promoting fear in those house owners that racial minorities will soon be moving into the neighborhood. Dorchester (colloquially referred to as Dot) is a historic neighborhood comprising more than in Boston, Massachusetts, United States.

Similarities between Blockbusting and Dorchester, Boston

Blockbusting and Dorchester, Boston have 4 things in common (in Unionpedia): African Americans, Great Migration (African American), Redlining, White flight.

African Americans

African Americans (also referred to as Black Americans or Afro-Americans) are an ethnic group of Americans with total or partial ancestry from any of the black racial groups of Africa.

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Great Migration (African American)

The Great Migration was the movement of 6 million African-Americans out of the rural Southern United States to the urban Northeast, Midwest, and West that occurred between 1916 and 1970.

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Redlining

In the United States, redlining is the systematic denial of various services to residents of specific, often racially associated, neighborhoods or communities, either directly or through the selective raising of prices.

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White flight

White flight is a term that originated in the United States, starting in the 1950s and 1960s, and applied to the large-scale migration of people of various European ancestries from racially mixed urban regions to more racially homogeneous suburban or exurban regions.

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Blockbusting and Dorchester, Boston Comparison

Blockbusting has 59 relations, while Dorchester, Boston has 318. As they have in common 4, the Jaccard index is 1.06% = 4 / (59 + 318).

References

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