I grew up a block away from Seneca village and only found out about it as an adult when they put up signage in the park telling its story.
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Moreover, this was never mentioned in FRIENDS. That TV show full of certain ppl where central park was like a gag in the show somehow. Lame
There's a town near me that was a black settlement from that period. Now it's white suburbia.
People have grandiose expectations of elementary or high school education. At best, you have time to cover topics at a very high level and I've never had a class that even made it to the twentieth century.
As important as this historical tidbit is, it's not a condemnation of history education. More than likely, this would come about in a college level course that is more specific.
Just wait until they finally teach you the truth. It was about the ideologies of slavery they didnt give a shit about the victims of slavery.
Stupid question, but I’ve been to NYC many times and I’ve always considered Central Park to be one of the only enjoyable parts of the city… am I allowed to enjoy it if it was taken this way?
Yes. Or you couldn't enjoy the majority of the US, which was taken from indigenous people.
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Of course they don't teach it in the US. Well, they don't teach it in my country, either, but at least I learned about it long ago. Even if it is not my history.
Is there a word for this?
Also considering all the examples off the tops of peoples heads here in the comments, there should be a wiki.
Maybe gentrification? When I googled this, the definitions were all about "revitalizing run down areas", which is, I think, exactly how it's framed when these things happen. But I really thought the word had a well defined negative connotation.
Anyway, had a conversation with a realtor once who was telling me she could get me a good deal on an apartment in a neighborhood in Brooklyn. They were looking for students because students draw internet cafes and then rich people come for the vibes. Jokes on her, Im poor.
And that I never heard a peep of this in any high school or college history class?
I mean... Unless you were taking some sort of graduate-level course focusing on events like this, why would you? It's a really interesting story, but it was a village of 225 people in a city of about one million that lasted 30 years, and its existence had minimal impact on history going forward. Seizures of predominantly black neighborhoods for public works projects are a dime a dozen in US history, and there are a million other topics to choose from like the Tulsa race massacre if you want noteworthy material about black oppression in the US for a high school or undergraduate level course. At best this would be an incidental two-sentence mention as a piece of trivia from a particularly knowledgeable teacher.
"Local person discovers undergraduate gen-ed courses not designed to teach you literally everything about a subject. More at 11."
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several archaeological digs have been conducted
Interesting to think of an archaeological dig for something after the country began.