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Updated second edition examining how the real estate industry and federal housing policy have facilitated the development of racial residential segregation.

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Author:   Kevin Fox Gotham
Publisher:   State University of New York Press
Imprint:   State University of New York Press
Edition:   Second Edition
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.336kg
ISBN:  

9781438449425

ISBN 10:   1438449429
Pages:   240
Publication Date:   01 February 2014
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

"List of Illustrations Acknowledgments 1. Race, Real Estate, and Uneven Development: An Introduction Housing as a System of Social Stratification Race, Racism, and Racialization Metropolitan Kansas City: An Overview Constructing a Segregated Metropolis 2. The Racialization of Space: Restrictive Covenants and the Origins of Racial Residential Segregation The Great Migration and the Rise of the Modern Real Estate Industry Racial Restrictive Covenants and the Real Estate Industry The Role of Community Builders The Role of Homeowner Associations The Legacy of Racial Restrictive Covenants 3. The Federal Government, Community Builders, and the Development of the Modern Mortgage System The Housing Act of 1934 and the Creation of the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) Community Builders and the FHA Racial Conflict and the Defense of Racial Space 4. Urban Renewal, Public Housing, and Downtown Redevelopment A Housing Program for Slum Clearance Local Implementation and Dislocating Effects Explaining Postwar Urban Redevelopment 5. Building the Troost Wall: School Segregation, Blockbusting, and the Racial Transitions of the Southeast Area Racial Population Change in Southeast Kansas City, 1950-1975 School Segregation and Neighborhood Racial Transition Blockbusting and Panic Selling The Role of the Real Estate Board Reflections and Experiences with Blockbusting The Legacy of School Desegregation and Blockbusting 6. The Struggle for Fair Housing Fair Housing and the Conflict over ""Rights"" Housing Act of 1968 and the FHA's Section 235 Program Local Implementation and Segregative Effects Neighborhood Response and Disinvestment Federal Housing Policy Retrenchment in the Post-Civil Rights Era Fair Housing in Retrospect Conclusions Old Customs Die Hard: Racialization of Space and the Global Real Estate Crisis Race, Housing, and the ""New Racism"" Privatism, Real Estate, and the Future of Uneven Development Notes References Index"

Reviews

Praise for the First Edition This work challenges the notion that demographic change and residential patterns are 'natural' or products of free market choices ... [it] contributes greatly to our understanding of how real estate interests shaped the hyper-segregation of American cities, and how government agencies[,] including school districts, worked in tandem to further demark the separate and unequal worlds in metropolitan life. - H-Net Reviews (H-Education) A hallmark of this book is its fine-grained analysis of just how specific activities of realtors, the FHA program, and members of the local school board contributed to the residential segregation of blacks in twentieth century urban America. A process Gotham labels the 'racialization of urban space'-the social construction of urban neighborhoods that links race, place, behavior, culture, and economic factors-has led white residents, realtors, businessmen, bankers, land developers, and school board members to act in ways that restricted housing for blacks to specific neighborhoods in Kansas City, as well as in other cities. - Philip Olson, University of Missouri-Kansas City This is a book which is greatly needed in the field. Gotham integrates, using historical data, the involvement of the real estate industry and the collusion of the federal government in the manufacturing of racially biased housing practices. His work advances the struggle for civil rights by showing that solving the problem of racism is not as simple as banning legal discrimination, but rather needs to address the institutional practices at all levels of the real estate industry. - Talmadge Wright, author of Out of Place: Homeless Mobilizations, Subcities, and Contested Landscapes

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Kevin Fox Gotham is Professor of Sociology at Tulane University.

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