Event Title
Terror Cimbricus: Section 8 and Civil Segregation
Presentation Type
Poster/Portfolio
Presenter Major(s)
Public Administration
Mentor Information
Jonathan White
Department
Frederik Meijer Honors College
Location
Henry Hall Atrium 84
Start Date
10-4-2013 3:00 PM
End Date
10-4-2013 4:00 PM
Keywords
Social Science
Abstract
Terror cimbricus was the Latin phrase ancient Romans used to describe the mass panic and state of emergency which followed the approach of the Cimbri tribe in 113 BC. The Cimbrian migration was met with desperate and self-defeating measures by the Roman Republic in order to combat it. While this paper does not treat the particular history of the Cimbrian threat, it does find race relations in America as a terror cimbricus of sorts. From white flight to white return, American cities are battlegrounds of insolvent and myopic public policy attempting to subvert democracy. Further, urban sprawl and segregation are not spontaneous, as is often assumed, and a close examination of recent national policy will prove that both are structural responses.
Terror Cimbricus: Section 8 and Civil Segregation
Henry Hall Atrium 84
Terror cimbricus was the Latin phrase ancient Romans used to describe the mass panic and state of emergency which followed the approach of the Cimbri tribe in 113 BC. The Cimbrian migration was met with desperate and self-defeating measures by the Roman Republic in order to combat it. While this paper does not treat the particular history of the Cimbrian threat, it does find race relations in America as a terror cimbricus of sorts. From white flight to white return, American cities are battlegrounds of insolvent and myopic public policy attempting to subvert democracy. Further, urban sprawl and segregation are not spontaneous, as is often assumed, and a close examination of recent national policy will prove that both are structural responses.