Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. A form of racial segregation that consists of the geographical grouping of racial groups.
Etymologies
- hyper- + segregation (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Chicago is known as the most segregated city in the United States -- so much so, in fact, that the term hypersegregation was coined to...”
The Huffington Post: New Data: Chicago Segregation Is Getting Worse
“Chicago is known as the most segregated city in the United States -- so much so, in fact, that the term "hypersegregation" was coined to...”
The Huffington Post: New Data: Chicago Segregation Is Getting Worse
“Chicago is known as the most segregated city in the United States -- so much so, in fact, that the term "hypersegregation" was coined to describe the ghettoized separation of blacks on the South Side and whites on the North.”
The Huffington Post: New Data: Chicago Segregation Is Getting Worse
“Kozol writes about "hypersegregation" with "no more than five or 10 white children (in) a student population of as many as 3000," and this is the "norm, not the exception, in most northern urban areas today.”
“Although such steps might provide short-term relief for some homeowners, speculative housing bubbles will likely recur along racially unequal lines as long as hypersegregation persists as a basic feature of metropolitan America.”
“Unless the segregated context in which they operate is also altered, however, speculative financial bubbles will persist and their uneven effects will continue to fall on vulnerable communities of color who have long paid the high costs of hypersegregation in the United States, America's own brand of Apartheid.”
“More than forty years after the passage of the Fair Housing Act, two thirds of all black urbanites continue to live under conditions of high segregation and nearly half live in metropolitan areas where the degree of racial isolation is so intense it conforms to the criteria for hypersegregation.”
“The concentration of income and wealth at the top coupled with the concentration of poverty and persisting levels of segregation and hypersegregation have nurtured significant increases in subprime and predatory lending among vulnerable communities," he said.”
Congressional Hearing Looks into Wells Fargo Predatory Lending
“Henderson sees that decision as a prelude to the hypersegregation that now defines much of Michigan.”
“Does anyone not see the obvious hypersegregation in our city neighborhoods?”
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