Race, Real Estate, and Uneven Development

by Gotham, Kevin Fox

• ISBN13: 9780791453780
• ISBN10: 0791453782
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-07-01
• Publisher: CORNELL UNIV PRESS

Author Biography

Kevin Fox Gotham is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Tulane University.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	vii
Acknowledgments	ix
Race, Real Estate, and Uneven Development: An Introduction	1	(26)
Housing as a System of Social Stratification	5	(6)
Race, Racism, and Racialization	11	(3)
Metropolitan Kansas City. An Overview	14	(8)
Constructing a Segregated Metropolis	22	(5)
The Racialization of Space: Restrictive Covenants and the Origins of Racial Residential Segregation	27	(22)
The Great Migration and the Rise of the Modern Real Estate Industry	33	(4)
Racial Restrictive Covenants and the Real Estate Industry	37	(9)
The Role of Community Builders	40	(3)
The Role of Homeowner Associations	43	(3)
The Legacy of Racial Restrictive Covenants	46	(3)
Federal Government, Community Builders, and the Development of the Modern Mortgage System	49	(22)
The Housing Act of 1934 and the Creation of the Federal Housing Administration (FHA)	53	(4)
Community Builders and the FHA	57	(6)
Racial Conflict and the Defense of Racial Space	63	(8)
Urban Renewal, Public Housing, and Downtown Redevelopment	71	(20)
A Housing Program for Slum Clearance	74	(4)
Local Implementation and Dislocating Effects	78	(7)
Explaining Postwar Urban Redevelopment	85	(6)
Building the Troost Wall: School Segregation, Blockbusting, and the Racial Transition of the Southeast Area	91	(30)
Racial Population Change in Southeast Kansas City, 1950-1975	94	(5)
School Segregation and Neighborhood Racial Transition	99	(4)
Blockbusting and Panic Selling	103	(13)
The Role of the Real Estate Board	107	(6)
Reflections and Experiences with Blockbusting	113	(3)
The Legacy of School Desegregation and Blockbusting	116	(5)
The Struggle for Fair Housing	121	(22)
Fair Housing and the Conflict over ``Rights''	124	(3)
Housing Act of 1968 and the Section 235 Program	127	(11)
Local Implementation and Segregative Effects	128	(3)
Neighborhood Response and Disinvestment	131	(7)
Federal Housing Policy Retrenchment in the Post-Civil Rights Era	138	(2)
Fair Housing in Retrospect	140	(3)
Conclusions	143	(14)
Race, Housing, and the ``New Racism''	145	(5)
Privatism, Real Estate, and the Future of Uneven Development	150	(7)
Notes	157	(18)
References	175	(20)
Index	195