As Long As They Don't Move Next Door
Subtitle: Segregation and Racial Conflict in American Neighborhoods
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.; Rowman & Littlefield
Published: January 25, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9780847697007
Subjects: History; Housing; United States; Race And Ethnic Relations; Social Science; Sociology; USA; Race relations; Discrimination; Discrimination & Racism; Minority Studies - Race Relations; History / General; Social Science / General; Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - General; African Americans; Discrimination in housing; Segregation
Description: "Despite the commonly held perception that most Northern citizens embraced racial equality, As Long As They Don't Move Next Door demonstrates the variety of methods - including violence and intimidation, unjust laws, restrictive covenants, discrimination by realtors and mortgage lenders, and white flight to suburban enclaves - used by whites to thwart the racial integration of their neighborhoods.

Author Stephen Grant Meyer offers the first full-length national history of American race relations examined through the lens of housing discrimination. This is important reading for anyone interested in African American history."--BOOK JACKET.