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Colored property : state policy and white racial politics in suburban America

Author: David M P Freund
Publisher: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2007.
Series: Historical studies of urban America.
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"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 over-looked a change in the racial thinking of whites and  Read more...
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Additional Physical Format: Online version:
Freund, David M.P.
Colored property.
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2007
(OCoLC)608020454
Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: David M P Freund
ISBN: 9780226262758 0226262758
OCLC Number: 75389819
Description: xii, 514 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm.
Contents: The new politics of race and property --
Part I: The political economy of suburban development and the race of economic value, 1910-1970. Local control and the rights of property : the politics of incorporation, zoning, and race before 1940 ; Financing suburban growth : federal policy and the birth of a racialized market for homes, 1930-1940 ; Putting private capital back to work : the logic of federal intervention, 1930-1940 ; A free market for housing : policy, growth, and exclusion in suburbia, 1940-1970 --
Part II: Race and development in metropolitan Detroit, 1940-1970. Defending and denning the new neighborhood : the politics of exclusion in Royal Oak, 1940-1955 ; Saying race out loud : the politics of exclusion in Dearborn, 1940-1955 ; The national is local : race and development in an era of civil rights protest, 1955-1964 ; Colored property and white backlash.
Series Title: Historical studies of urban America.
Responsibility: David M.P. Freund.
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