Race, Real Estate, and Uneven Development
Subtitle: The Kansas City Experience, 1900-2000
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: July 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 204
ISBN-13: 9780791453780
Subjects: Racism & racial discrimination; 20th century; Housing & Urban Development; Economic conditions; Sociology; Social Science; Missouri; Kansas; Kansas City; Discrimination; Discrimination & Racism; Minority Studies - Race Relations; Sociology - Urban; History; Housing; Kansas City (Mo.); Race relations
Description: "In Race, Real Estate, and Uneven Development: The Kansas City Experience, 1900-2000, Kevin Fox Gotham reexamines the assumptions behind explanations and offers a new thesis. Using the Kansas City metropolitan area as a case study, Gotham provides both quantitative and qualitative documentation of the role of the real estate industry and the Federal Housing Administration, demonstrating how these institutions have promulgated racial residential segregation and uneven development.

Gotham challenges contemporary explanations while providing fresh insights into the racialization of metropolitan space, the interlocking dimensions of class and race in metropolitan development, and the importance of analyzing housing as a system of social stratification."--BOOK JACKET.