Colored Property: State Policy and White Racial Politics in Suburban America (Historical Studies of Urban America)
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David M. P. Freund (Author)
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In "Colored Property", David M. P. Freund shows how federal intervention spurred a dramatic shift in the language and logic of racial integration in residential neighborhoods after World War II - away from invocations of a mythical racial hierarchy and toward talk of markets, property, and citizenship. Freund traces the emergence of a powerful public-private alliance that facilitated postwar suburban growth across the nation with federal programs that significantly favored whites. Then, showing how this national story played out in metropolitan Detroit, he demonstrates how whites learned to view discrimination not as an act of racism but as a legitimate response to the needs of the market. Illuminating government's powerful yet still-hidden role in the segregation of U.S. cities, "Colored Property" presents a dramatic new vision of metropolitan growth, segregation, and white identity in modern America.
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David M. P. Freund is associate professor of history at the University of Maryland, College Park.
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- Contributor: David M. P. Freund
- Imprint: University of Chicago Press
- ISBN13: 9780226262758
- Number of Pages: 496
- Packaged Dimensions: 17x23x3mm
- Packaged Weight: 822
- Format: Hardback
- Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
- Release Date: 2007-07-24
- Series: Historical Studies of Urban America
- Binding: Hardback
- Biography: David M. P. Freund is associate professor of history at the University of Maryland, College Park.
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