Metropolitan Detroit’s racial segregation makes nearby towns feel like distant worlds

Evidence

We then walked through crossing lanes of memories connecting my hometown and his, Lincoln Park, a fifteen-minute drive down Southfield Freeway from my Detroit neighborhood, Warrendale. It was a short drive, but mapping the racially segregated landscape that is metropolitan Detroit, Lincoln Park felt like an entirely distant place. It was downriver but in many respects felt like down south, where the sight of Confederate flags and menacing stares from white men in pickup trucks were common. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 181

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s broader interest in how American racial geography structures perception — relates to reading on segregation and the American Dream in other sources.