The Community Of Jamaic A Middle Class Area - 1723 Words

The community of Jamaica is a middle class vicinity that is located in the New York City borough Queens. According to American Fact Finder it has an estimated population of 32, 821 with the margin of error being 1550. Of the 32,821 population, there are only 1543 whites (4.7%) populating the Jamaica area of Queens while the community is heavily populated with blacks with the fact finder coming up with 24,847 Black or African American (74.6%) that resides there. The other 6431 left of the populations are divided among American Indian and Alaska Native (1.6%), Asian (7.0%), Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander (0.3%) and some Other Race (14.1%). The community of Jamaica has a diverse and large population and it has not always been so. In the 19th century and early 20th century the population of Jamaica mostly consist of Whites and new Irish immigrants. In the 1950s after the whites started moving out of the neighborhood African American took their place and after the price of ho uses fell many Hispanics and West Indian immigrants started moving into Jamaica. A population so heavily populated with Blacks and other minority races have led may people to categorize the neighborhood of Jamaica has a bad area to live in. Many whites avoid moving into this neighborhood and are more likely to leave than to move in and a conclusion that can be drawn from this would be that whites are afraid of living among Blacks and other minority groups because if certain stigmatisms placed on