USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Racial segregation is the systematic separation of people into racial or other ethnic groups in daily life. Racial segregation can amount to the international crime of apartheid and a crime against humanity under the Statute of the International Criminal Court.

Detailed explanation-2: -While segregation can be driven by the choice of migrants to settle close to networks of friends, relatives and members of the same ethnic group, they may be forced to live in more deprived areas due to a lack of jobs and affordable housing.

Detailed explanation-3: -Gentrification, gated communities, and ghetto formation are consequences of this segregation process, which can be measured if there are detailed data of social composition.

Detailed explanation-4: -Segregation soon became official policy enforced by a series of Southern laws. Through so-called Jim Crow laws (named after a derogatory term for Blacks), legislators segregated everything from schools to residential areas to public parks to theaters to pools to cemeteries, asylums, jails and residential homes.