World More Concrete Real Estate and the Remaking of Jim Crow South Florida

Name: World More Concrete Real Estate and the Remaking of Jim Crow South Florida
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ISBN: 9780226115146

ISBN-10: 0226115143

ISBN-13: 9780226115146

Edition: 2014

Authors: N. D. B. Connolly

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Many people understand urban renewal projects and the power of eminent domain as two of the most widely despised, and even racist, tools for reshaping American cities in the postwar period. In A World More Concrete, N. D. B. Connolly unearths a far more complex story.Connolly scrutinizes nearly eighty years of history and reveals how real estate and land development in South Florida are expressions of political culture, racial power, and metropolitan transformation. He uses a materialist approach to offer a long view of urban redevelopment and the color line, following much of the money that made Jim Crow segregation a profitable and durable social process in cities throughout the twentieth…

Book details

List price: $99.00
Copyright year: 2014
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 8/25/2014
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 376
Size: 0.64" wide x 0.93" long x 0.11" tall
Weight: 1.430
Language: English