Colored property : state policy and white racial politics in suburban America / David M.P. Freund

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Contents: The new politics of race and property -- Local control and the rights of property : the politics of incorporation, zoning, and race before 1940 -- Financing suburban growth : federal policy and the birth of a racialized market for homes, 1930-1940 -- Putting private capital back to work : the logic of federal intervention, 1930-1940 -- A free market for housing : policy, growth, and exclusion in suburbia, 1940-1970 -- Defending and defining the new neighborhood : the politics of exclusion in Royal Oak, 1940-1955 -- Saying race out loud : the politics of exclusion in Dearborn, 1940-1955 -- The national is local : race and development in an era of civil rights protest, 1955-1964 -- Colored property and white backlash
Summary: Shows how federal intervention spurred a dramatic shift in the language and logic of racial integration in residential neighborhoods after World War II - away from invocations of a mythical racial hierarchy and toward talk of markets, property, and citizenship.

Topic: White people--Politics and government; White people--Attitudes--History; African Americans--Housing--History; Discrimination in housing--History; Housing policy--History; Suburban life--History; City and town life--History; Race relations; History