Not in My Neighborhood

Name: Not in My Neighborhood
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ISBN: 9781566638432

ISBN-10: 1566638437

ISBN-13: 9781566638432

Edition: 2010

Authors: Antero Pietila

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Eugenics, racial thinking, and white supremacist attitudes influenced even the federal government's actions toward housing in the 20th century, dooming American cities to ghettoization. The Federal Housing Administration continued discriminatory housing policies even into the 1960s, long after civil rights legislation. This all-American tale is told through the prism of Baltimore, from its early suburbanization in the 1880s to the consequences of white flight after World War II, and into the first decade of the twenty-first century. The events are real, and so are the heroes and villains. Mr. Pietila's narrative centers on the human side of residential real estate practices, whose…

Book details

List price: $28.95
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Ivan R. Dee Publisher
Publication date: 3/16/2010
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 336
Size: 6.43" wide x 9.41" long x 1.14" tall
Weight: 1.606
Language: English



Preface: Harlem on My Mind



1910-1944: A White Man's City



1910



Good Government



Race Science



Segregation by Collusion



Mapping Bigotry



The Good War



1944-1968: Blacks Next Door



Crossing Fulton Avenue



Covenants Crumble



Fighting Anti-Semitism



A Brotherhood of Profit



Ordinary Lives



Uneasy Allies



From Dream to Nightmare



1968-2000: The Noose



Exiting the City



Metropolis



Persistent Patterns


Epilogue: An American Dilemma


Acknowledgments


Notes


Index