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Race, real estate, and uneven development : the Kansas City experience, 1900-2010
- Author / Creator
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- Online
- Summary
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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"--Provided by publisher.
Details
- Creator
- Kevin Fox Gotham
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Second edition
- Albany : State University of New York Press, [2014]
- ©2014
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (240 p.)
- ISBNs
- 9781438449449, 1438449445, 1438449437
- OCLC
- ocn869736059
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- English
- ""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""