Race, Real Estate, and Uneven Development, Second Edition: The Kansas City Experience, 1900-2010
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| Rating | : | 4.16 (683 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1438449429 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 240 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-06-07 |
| Language | : | English |
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Kevin Fox Gotham is Professor of Sociology at Tulane University.
H-Net Reviews (H-Education) A hallmark of this book is its fine-grained analysis of just how specific activities of realtors, the FHA program, and members of the local school board contributed to the residential segregation of blacks in twentieth century urban America. Gotham integrates, using historical data, the involvement of the real estate industry and the collusion of the federal government in the manufacturing of racially biased housing practices. Philip Olson, University of Missouri Kansas City This is a book which is greatly needed in the field. Talmadge Wright, author of Out of Place: Homeless Mobilizations, Subcities, and Contested Landscapes" . A process
Gotham investigates the role of the real estate industry in the “concentrating poor minorities in the inner city and encouraging KE Most works that focus on racial residential segregation explain its roots with the “preference perspective,” or that races become spatially segregated based on market supply and demand and consumer desire (6). In Race, Real Estate and Uneven Development: The Kansas City Experience, 1900-2010, sociologist Kevin Fox Gotham deviates from the norm and aims to . "Uneven development is probably a good description" according to Barbara Bever. A little full of statistics to start but found that bearing with it a bit proved much more interesting. Any human story can be reduced to nuts and bolts and no story, but there are two very definite sides to every tale of any community.
In this second edition, he includes new material that explains the racially unequal impact of the subprime real estate crisis that began in late 2007, and explains why racial disparities in housing and lending remain despite the passage of fair housing laws and antidiscrimination statutes.Praise for the First Edition“This work challenges the notion that demographic change and residential patterns are ‘natural’ or products of free market choices … it contributes greatly to our understanding of how real estate interests shaped the hyper-segregation of American cities, and how government agencies, including school districts, worked in tandem to further demark the separate and unequal worlds in metropolitan life.” — H-Net Reviews (H-Education)“A hallmark of this book is its fine-grained analysis of just how specific activities of realtors, the FHA program, and members of the local school board contributed to the reside