Title Patchwork apartheid : private restriction, racial segregation, and urban inequality / Colin Gordon

Published New York : Russell Sage Foundation, [2023]

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 267 pages) : illustrations, maps Contents Introduction -- Caucasians Only: Categories, Frames, and Narratives in Private Restriction -- Dividing the City: Patterns of Private Restriction -- Patchwork Apartheid: Private Restrictions and Racial Segregation -- Dress Rehearsal for Shelley: Private Restrictions and the Law -- Long Shadow: The Durable Inequalities of Private Restriction Summary "Private restrictions on racial occupancy are a critical element and episode in the history of American inequality. This study draws on newly available full count (parcel-level) data on racial restriction for five Midwestern counties. The research makes four important and overlapping contributions to our understanding of the history of the American city, and to the patterns and processes of segregation and stratification that are so central to that history. First, it elevates and clarifies the role of private restriction in the history and architecture of racial segregation in the United States. Second, it documents the astonishing scale and reach of private racial restriction. Third, this record of private restriction offers a compelling documentary catalogue of both local and individual acts of discrimination or segregation, and of the racial assumptions and racial categories that animated them. Finally, the importance of private restriction to our account of racial segregation shifts our attention from public to private actors, and from the local and federal housing polices of the 1940s to the patchwork apartheid of private restriction that those policies accommodated, emulated and, over time, locked down. The trajectory of racial residential segregation in most settings simply does not support the conclusion that it was primarily or overwhelmingly a product of public policy. Public policies did not segregate America; they failed to challenge that segregation when confronted with it, and routinely deferred to the private actors who were responsible"-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 27, 2023) Subject Segregation -- Middle West -- History Discrimination in housing -- Middle West -- History African Americans -- Housing -- Middle West -- History African Americans -- Middle West -- History Racism -- Middle West -- History HISTORY / General African Americans African Americans -- Housing Discrimination in housing Race relations Racism Segregation SUBJECT United States -- Race relations. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140494 Subject Middle West United States Genre/Form History Form Electronic book LC no. 2023018654 ISBN 9781610449229 1610449223

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