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redlining

redlining

7.3
Refusing bank loans and insurance to people in certain neighborhoods because of their race or ethnicity
  • noun
  • /ˈrɛdˌlaɪnɪŋ/
  • Offensive
translation icon : discriminación residencial
  • Redlining often resulted in communities of color facing difficulties in accessing loans for home purchases.

Racism in the form of slavery, segregation, and redlining came first.

Examples

  • Many families were unable to secure mortgages due to redlining, which targeted neighborhoods primarily inhabited by racial minorities.

  • Redlining and race-restrictive housing covenants anchored Phoenix Mexicans to barrios south of downtown and especially distant from the newly expanding Anglo residential districts to the north.

    Academic text (2008)
  • The worst category, level D, was red, and the term redlining comes from this.

  • Racism in the form of slavery, segregation, and redlining came first.

  • It's based on a sense of needing a psychological crutch because of the whole that Jim Crow and slavery and redlining left in our souls.

  • Generations of racism, Jim Crow, disinvestment and redlining have meant that we don't really control our own spaces.

  • OK, so redlining federally mandated or sustained by the FHA, right?

  • The practice of redlining systematically excluded certain ethnic groups from receiving insurance and financial services.

Synonyms

discrimination
vsredlining
  • Offensive
535 3.5

Unfair treatment of people because of their race, age, or sex

is specific to race based service denial tied to location
racial discrimination
vsredlining
  • Offensive
17 4.1

Unfair treatment of people because of their race or ethnic background

focuses on denying services to residents of certain areas because of race

How Discriminatory

segregation
  • Offensive
84 6.1
redlining
  • Offensive
7.3
discrimination
  • Offensive
535 3.5
avoidance
39 3.7

Surface Forms

redlining singular
redlinings plural

Morphology

redlining = redline (opaque) = red + line + ing

The step from the verb 'redline' to the noun 'redlining' is a regular gerund/nominalization formed with -ing.

Etymology

The word redlining comes from a time when banks drew a red line on city maps around neighborhoods they marked as 'risky' and would not give loans to. That's why redlining now means the unfair practice of refusing loans or services to people in certain areas, often because of their race.