Driving to Policymaker Education day yesterday, I caught Beth Ruyak's interview of urban sociologist Dr. Jesus Hernandez from UC Davis Dept of Sociology. Has anyone reached out to him about our Resilience work in Sacramento and UC Davis? His interview was very informative.
He traces the origins of social ills in Sacramento back to decades-old policy decisions that racially divided the city into neighborhoods with disparate access to resources and economic opportunities. Viewed on a map, this geography of race traces an X across the region, a pattern that Dr. Hernandez says continues to shape neighborhoods and the lives of their residents.
"We can measure every social ill by this geography," he explains.
Dr. Hernandez joined Insight host Beth Ruyak to talk about his research and why housing rules from the early twentieth century continue to influence the community today. That conversation has gained renewed attention in Sacramento as advocates have pointed to the role of inequality and lack of investment in Meadowview, where Stephon Clark lived and was killed by police, and which has experienced high crime rates and poverty.
Listen to the full interview from Cap City Radio HERE
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