... looks at the house and visualizes his wife pruning prize-winning roses in the garden that is in front of the house, and his two boys playing in the sprinkler in the front yard on a hot ... another race. Thirty percent of black Americans live in all-black neighborhoods (Gillmor). "We like it this way," said my friend Alfredo Lewis commenting on the community empowerment theory, "I don't care if a few ... the result of positive initiatives being taken by city planners to help reform downtown St. Louis. Farley notes that although segregation in the St. Louis metro area is on a modest decli...

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