redlining
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[edit]Etymology
[edit](systematic denial): From the red outlines used by the HOLC to mark D-rated neighborhoods with minority occupants.[1]
Noun
[edit]redlining (countable and uncountable, plural redlinings)
- The process of or an instance of redlining.
- 2013, Adam Jones, The Scourge of Genocide: Essays and Reflections, →ISBN, page 29:
- I won't soon forget Ben handing me the first of those printouts, literally covered with his notes, arrows, X's, redlinings...My heart sank.
- (Canada, US) 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.
- 2007, Alexander Polikoff, Waiting for Gautreaux: A Story of Segregation, Housing, and the Black Ghetto, Northwestern University Press, →ISBN, page 120:
- Admittedly, our metropolitan plan was an exercise in hope. There were million reasons why it might not have worked. But it represented a responsible way to try to begin atoning for the public housing ghettos, the racial zoning and covenants, the redlining, the “Negro removal,” and the other policies and practices that had given us the two separate and unequal societies described by the Kerner report.
Verb
[edit]redlining
- present participle and gerund of redline
References
[edit]- ^ Camila Domonoske (2016 October 19) “Interactive Redlining Map Zooms In On America's History Of Discrimination”, in npr:
- The project features the infamous redlining maps from the Home Owners' Loan Corporation. In the late 1930s, the HOLC "graded" neighborhoods into four categories, based in large part on their racial makeup. Neighborhoods with minority occupants were marked in red — hence "redlining" — and considered high-risk for mortgage lenders.
