The same neighborhood is judged good with White residents and bad with Black ones

Evidence

By the end of the twentieth century, the opposite was occurring as Whites “gentrified” Black urban neighborhoods. Black neighborhoods became interracial and eventually ended up almost all White, with the changing demographics from Black to White quickly leading to improved conceptions of the same neighborhood. Apparently, the sight of White people marked a good neighborhood, whereas the sight of Black people in the same place marked a bad one, thus demonstrating the power of racist ideas. — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning, 917

Categorization

• SHARE: A sharp illustration for anyone teaching or writing about implicit bias and housing perceptions.
• SEED: Essay angle: how the same physical space is morally re-evaluated purely by the race of its occupants — the ‘bad neighborhood’ as a racist idea rather than a fact.
• XREF: connects to: City neglect of black neighborhoods was misread by whites as black-caused decay — Kevin M. Kruse, White Flight: Atlanta and the Making of…, 180; White residents renamed their street to escape a ‘black’ address stigma — Kevin M. Kruse, White Flight: Atlanta and the Making of…, 149