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Online-Ressource (528 p)
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9780226262765
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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 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 logi
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CONTENTS; Acknowledgments; ONE / The New Politics of Race and Property; PART I : THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF SUBURBAN DEVELOPMENT AND THE RACE OF ECONOMIC VALUE, 1910-1970; TWO / Local Control and the Rights of Property: The Politics of Incorporation, Zoning, and Race before 1940; THREE / Financing Suburban Growth: Federal Policy and the Birth of a Racialized Market for Homes, 1930-1940; FOUR / Putting Private Capital Back to Work: The Logic of Federal Intervention, 1930-1940; FIVE / A Free Market for Housing: Policy, Growth, and Exclusion in Suburbia, 1940-1970
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PART II : RACE AND DEVELOPMENT IN METROPOLITAN DETROIT, 1940-1970SIX / Defending and Defi ning the New Neighborhood: The Politics of Exclusion in Royal Oak, 1940-1955; SEVEN / Saying Race Out Loud: The Politics of Exclusion in Dearborn, 1940-1955; EIGHT / The National Is Local: Race and Development in an Era of Civil Rights Protest, 1955-1964; NINE / Colored Property and White Backlash; Abbreviations; Notes; Index
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ISBN 9780226262772
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ISBN 9780226262758
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Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Colored Property : State Policy and White Racial Politics in Suburban America
Sprache:
Englisch
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