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Genre/Form: | History |
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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 pages : illustrations, 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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Abstract:
Shows how federal intervention spurred a dramatic shift in the language and logic of racial integration in residential neighborhoods after World War II - away from invocations of a mythical racial hierarchy and toward talk of markets, property, and citizenship.
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"A creative, vital entry point to explore the tangle of federal mortgage financing, housing reform, and deep-seated racism.... This well-written, much-needed study brings together the realms of urban history, race relations, and economic opportunity." - Choice "Freund's book unravels the ties that bound (and bind) race and property, and, in the process, shows how that linkage altered white racial ideals and politics in postwar America." - Andrew Wiese, Journal of American History" Read more...

