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How the Suburbs Were Segregated: Developers and the Business of Exclusionary Housing, 1890-1960

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Availability:In StockContributor:Paige GlotzerSeries:Columbia Studies in the History of U.S. CapitalismPublish date:2020-04-28Pages:320
Language:EnglishPublisher:Columbia University PressISBN-13:9780231179997ISBN-10:231179995UPC:9780231179997Book Category:History, Law, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:United States, Housing & Urban Development, DiscriminationBook Topic:20th CenturySize:8.90 x 6.00 x 0.90 inchesWeight:0.9502Product ID:SCTS747Z3T

How the Suburbs Were Segregated: Developers and the Business of Exclusionary Housing, 1890-1960

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...

Series: Columbia Studies in the History of U.S. Capitalism
Language:EnglishPublisher:Columbia University PressISBN-13:9780231179997ISBN-10:231179995UPC:9780231179997Book Category:History, Law, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:United States, Housing & Urban Development, DiscriminationBook Topic:20th CenturySize:8.90 x 6.00 x 0.90 inchesWeight:0.9502Product ID:SCTS747Z3T
Paige Glotzer is assistant professor and John W. and Jeanne M. Rowe Chair in the History of American Politics, Institutions, and Political Economy at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Publisher: Columbia University Press

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