Colored property
Subtitle: state policy and white racial politics in suburban America
By: David M.P. Freund
Series: Historical studies of urban America
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 514
ISBN-13: 9780226262758
Subjects: Politics and government; Race relations; Whites; Housing; Discrimination in housing; Attitudes; Suburban life; Housing policy; African Americans; City and town life; History
Description: "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 over-looked 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 exclusion - away from invocations of a mythical racial hierarchy and toward talk of markets, property, and citizenship."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [405]-488) and index.