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Today we went over summarizing a quote in Schindler’s essay, “Architectural Exclusion: Discrimination and Segregation Through Physical Design of the Built Environment”. Partnered with Black Candebat, while we were assigned for Part B in the the first section of the excerpt, we went over it and went onto the second section finding a quote that best described what message the author was sending to its audience.

“In Detroit in 1940, a private developer constructed a six-foot-high wall – known as the Eight Mile Wall – to separate an existing black neighborhood from a new white one that was to be constructed.”

• In Section II Part A, this quote described and portrayed the most prominent example of how architecture was used as an exclusionary device to segregate demographic groups. Detroit was one of the largest sites of racial segregation in the United States, so much to the fact it was displayed physically the most out of all the other cities in the country. The 8-mile wall was used because there was a white only neighborhood being constructed to a neighboring black neighborhood. To segregate this, they petitioned and decided to construct a wall to separate and exclude the non-white demographic group from being part of the new neighborhood.

Also, I have Googled photos of the Eight Mile Wall to give a visual example.

“Negro children standing in front of half mile concrete wall, Detroit, Michigan. This wall was built in August 1941, to separate the Negro section from a white housing development going up on the other side” – Library of Congress