Hoover’s experience wasn’t uncommon. Homes at the time often had deed restrictions written into their contracts that explicitly prohibited their sale to African-Americans. “But when I would show up and they’d see my face, they would suddenly say it had ‘just been rented’ or something to that effect.” “You’d call them, ask them if the apartment was available. Hoover was black, which means he couldn’t live wherever he wanted. He would dial up dozens of apartment listings. He arrived in Palo Alto at roughly the same time as my grandfather. But my grandfather, who grew up in a poor Jewish family in Los Angeles during the Great Depression, was white. His wife was earning her doctorate from Stanford’s department of education. Air Force veteran who served on a gunner crew in the Korean War, Bob Hoover came to the Bay Area in 1959 as a young master’s degree student at Stanford University. 1950s: Residential Segregation In What Would Become Silicon ValleyĪ U.S. It’s about how seemingly small policy choices can have enduring, multi-generational consequences.Ī year ago, I told you my family’s history in Silicon Valley. Let me tell you another story.
This is a story of how two neighboring communities followed entirely different trajectories in post-war California - one of enormous wealth and power, and the other of resilience amid deprivation. Moreover, the questions being asked today about why the tech industry lacks racial diversity, and what the long-term consequences of gentrification are in the U.S.’s most economically vibrant regions like the San Francisco Bay Area are deeply intertwined in a way that is hard to perceive unless you step back.
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In 1992, the city earned the moniker “Murder Capital of the U.S.A.” after having the highest homicide per capita rate in the country. Three years later, its high school students became the center of the Michelle Pfeiffer movie “Dangerous Minds,” with the Coolio single “Gangsta’s Paradise” on the soundtrack.īut today, with Facebook constructing a Frank Gehry-designed office complex that will let the company support roughly 7,000 workers while Palo Alto and Menlo Park balk at building housing even though median home prices have soared beyond $2 million, East Palo Alto may change enormously over the next decade. However, in the longer sentence, the author’s tone is depicted through vivid adjectives that provide the reader with a meaningful interpretation of his childish and sarcastic tone.Map: Jake Coolidge, created at the Stanford Spatial History ProjectĮast Palo Alto has been portrayed as a haven of affordability for a low-income and primarily black and Latino community and alternately as a stubbornly intractable core of poverty and violence amid Silicon Valley’s glittering wealth. In the shorter sentences, his tone is conveyed directly and to the point. A mixture of sentences with varying lengths contributes to the overall effectiveness of Steinbeck’s tone. Frequent rhetorical questions help accomplish this task.
His style of writing contains sentences, phrases, and clauses that cause the reader to stop and think about the meaning of his words and identify what grander meaning he is alluding to. The syntax presented in Steinbeck’s writing first influences his style of writing. “Vice has always a new fresh young face, while virtue is venerable as nothing else in the world is” (415).And then-remember?-the train whistle…and you could hear it sighing at the station. Remember how the shades were always drawn with the little lines of yellow light around their edges?. “Do you remember hearing that, old men? And do you remember how an easterly breeze brought odors in from Chinatown, roasting port and punk and black tobacco and yen shi? And do you remember the deep blatting stroke of the great gong in the Joss House, and how its tone hung in the air so long? Remember, too, the little houses, unpainted, unrepaired?.“By disparagement, by starvation, by repressions, forced direction, and the stunning hammerblows of conditioning, the free, roving mind is being pursued, roped, blunted, drugged” (132).“Maybe the less you have, the more you are required to boast” (4).
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