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Colored Property: State Policy and White Racial Politics in Suburban America
Northern whites in the post–World War II era began to support the principle of civil rights, so why did many of them continue to oppose racial integration in their communities? Challenging conventional wisdom about the growth, prosperity, and racial exclusivity of American suburbs, David M. P. Freund argues that previous attempts to answer this question have overlooked a c...more
Hardcover, 496 pages
Published
August 1st 2007
by University Of Chicago Press
(first published January 1st 2007)
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This book chronicles the incredible history of not only state-based discrimination in housing, but also the power of neighborhood associations and individuals, driven by fear, to deny access to or drive out people of color. Our nation, and especially many urban centers, like Chicago, are still incredibly segregated. For anyone who thinks that equal opportunity today allows anyone to live anywhere and to accumulate equity and wealth ("The American Dream"), this book will provide the historical co...more
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I read this for my "Sociology of Urban Education" class at TC. The basic premise is that the creation of the White, middle-class, suburbs as we know them (excluding Blacks and those with low incomes) had more to do with federal policy that the "free market." The way the federal government, the real estate industry, and the banks set up the system of housing finance specifically excluded all "non-Whites," while heavily subsidizing long term, low rate loans. After this system was in place, homeown...more
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