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OverviewRace and Real Estate brings together new work by architects, sociologists, legal scholars, and literary critics that qualifies and complicates traditional narratives of race, property, and citizenship in the United States. Rather than simply rehearsing the standard account of how blacks were historically excluded from homeownership, the authors of these essays explore how the raced history of property affects understandings of home and citizenship. While the narrative of race and real estate in America has usually been relayed in terms of institutional subjugation, dispossession, and forced segregation, the essays collected in this volume acknowledge the validity of these histories while presenting new perspectives on this story. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Adrienne Brown (Assistant Professor of English, Assistant Professor of English, University of Chicago) , Valerie Smith (Dean of the College, Woodrow Wilson Professor of Literature, Dean of the College, Woodrow Wilson Professor of Literature, Princeton University)Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc Dimensions: Width: 23.90cm , Height: 2.80cm , Length: 16.30cm Weight: 0.714kg ISBN: 9780199977260ISBN 10: 0199977267 Pages: 354 Publication Date: 12 November 2015 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Tertiary & Higher Education , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsReviewsI strongly recommend Race and Real Estate to everyone interested in the topic, particularly those who feel they already know a lot about these topics. This is a difficult book to summarize because it is so rich. For me, each chapter offered new insights and new information on familiar topics and generally challenged some of my long-held understandings related to issues of race and real estate. It is a must read. --Nancy Denton, Contemporary Sociology Race and Real Estate is a ground-breaking, richly complex collection. The sustained, unflinching exploration of certain motifs holds familiar topics up to fresh perspectives, offering insight into narratives of home ownership, belonging, neighborhood, segregation, place and space, planning and urban renewal, law and policy, property, and the long inheritance of slavery and colonialism. Sparks fly from these essays. The book invites new thinking about this powerful topic, pushing readers to revisit history and find inspiration for building a better future. --Alison Isenberg, Professor of History, Princeton University, and author of Downtown America Provocative and innovative treatment of real estate's racialized past and present, with lessons for the future. Interdisciplinary work at its best. --Barbara D. Savage, Africana Studies, University of Pennsylvania The essays in Race and Real Estate--from leading scholars in law, sociology, history, American studies, and literature--offer a bracing, complex, and compelling examination of race and property in America. The compilation presents us with a great deal to admire. Equally important, Race and Real Estate provides us with a great deal to ponder, question, and question again. --Bennett Capers, Stanley A. August Professor of Law, Brooklyn Law School Author InformationAdrienne Brown is Assistant Professor of English, University of Chicago. Valerie Smith is Dean of the College and Woodrow Wilson Professor of Literature, Department of English and African American Studies at Princeton University. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |