How the Suburbs Were Segregated: Developers and the Business of Exclusionary Housing, 1890-1960
(Part of the Columbia Studies in the History of U.S. Capitalism Series)
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The story of the rise of the segregated suburb often begins during the New Deal and the Second World War, when sweeping federal policies hollowed out cities, pushed rapid suburbanization, and created a white homeowner class intent on defending racial barriers. Paige Glotzer offers a new understanding of the deeper roots of suburban segregation. The mid-twentieth-century policies that favored exclusionary housing were not simply the inevitable result...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0231179995
ISBN13:9780231179997
Release Date:April 2020
Publisher:Columbia University Press
Length:320 Pages
Weight:1.00 lbs.
Dimensions:0.9" x 6.0" x 8.9"
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