Patchwork apartheid : private restriction, racial segregation, and urban inequality /

Patchwork apartheid : private restriction, racial segregation, and urban inequality /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Gordon, Colin, 1962- author.
Imprint:	New York : Russell Sage Foundation, [2023]
Description:	xvi, 267 pages : illustratins, maps ; 23 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Segregation -- Middle West -- History. Discrimination in housing -- Middle West -- History. African Americans -- Housing -- Middle West -- History. African Americans -- Middle West -- History. Racism -- Middle West -- History. African Americans African Americans -- Housing Discrimination in housing Race relations Racism Segregation United States -- Race relations. Middle West United States History
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13404053

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ISBN:	9780871545541 0871545543 9781610449229
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	"Private restrictions on racial occupancy are a critical element and episode in the history of American inequality. This study draws on newly available full count (parcel-level) data on racial restriction for five Midwestern counties. The research makes four important and overlapping contributions to our understanding of the history of the American city, and to the patterns and processes of segregation and stratification that are so central to that history. First, it elevates and clarifies the role of private restriction in the history and architecture of racial segregation in the United States. Second, it documents the astonishing scale and reach of private racial restriction. Third, this record of private restriction offers a compelling documentary catalogue of both local and individual acts of discrimination or segregation, and of the racial assumptions and racial categories that animated them. Finally, the importance of private restriction to our account of racial segregation shifts our attention from public to private actors, and from the local and federal housing polices of the 1940s to the patchwork apartheid of private restriction that those policies accommodated, emulated and, over time, locked down. The trajectory of racial residential segregation in most settings simply does not support the conclusion that it was primarily or overwhelmingly a product of public policy. Public policies did not segregate America; they failed to challenge that segregation when confronted with it, and routinely deferred to the private actors who were responsible"--
Other form:	Online version: Gordon, Colin, 1962- Patchwork apartheid New York : Russell Sage Foundation, [2023] 9781610449229

Table of Contents:

Introduction
Caucasians Only: Categories, Frames, and Narratives in Private Restriction
Dividing the City: Patterns of Private Restriction
Patchwork Apartheid: Private Restrictions and Racial Segregation
Dress Rehearsal for Shelley: Private Restrictions and the Law
Long Shadow: The Durable Inequalities of Private Restriction.