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Author Freund, David M. P.

Title Colored property : state policy and white racial politics in suburban America / David M.P. Freund
Published Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2007

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 514 pages) : illustrations, map
Series Historical studies of urban America
Historical studies of urban America.
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
Summary 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 overlooked a change in the racial thinking of whites and the role of suburban politics in effecting this change. In Colored Property, he shows how federal intervention spurred a dramatic shift in the language and logic of residential exclu
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 405-488) and index
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Subject White people -- United States -- Politics and government -- 20th century
White people -- United States -- Attitudes -- History -- 20th century
African Americans -- Housing -- History -- 20th century
Discrimination in housing -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Housing policy -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Suburban life -- United States -- History -- 20th century
City and town life -- United States -- History -- 20th century
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- African American Studies.
African Americans -- Housing
City and town life
Discrimination in housing
Housing policy
Race relations
Suburban life
White people -- Attitudes
White people -- Politics and government
Rassendiskriminierung
Wohnungspolitik
Wohnen.
Politik.
Rassendiskriminierung.
SUBJECT United States -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century
Subject United States
USA
USA.
Schwarze.
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780226262772
0226262774
1282679058
9781282679054
9786612679056
6612679050