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David M. P. Freund

Colored Property

State Policy and White Racial Politics in Suburban America

496 pages, 13 halftones, 4 maps, 5 line drawings  6 x 9  © 2007
Series: Historical Studies of Urban America

Cloth $35.00

ISBN: 9780226262758   Published July 2007

Paper $24.00

ISBN: 9780226262765   Pre-order now. Will publish May 2010

Acknowledgments

 

Chapter 1. The New Politics of Race and Property

 

Part I: The Political Economy of Suburban Development and the Race of Economic Value, 1910-1970

 

Chapter 2. Local Control and the Rights of Property: The Politics of Incorporation, Zoning, and Race before 1940

 

Chapter 3. Financing Suburban Growth: Federal Policy and the Birth of a Racialized Market for Homes, 1930-1940

 

Chapter 4. Putting Private Capital Back to Work: The Logic of Federal Intervention, 1930-1940

 

Chapter 5. A Free Market for Housing: Policy, Growth, and Exclusion in Suburbia, 1940-1970

 

Part II: Race and Development in Metropolitan Detroit, 1940-1970

 

Chapter 6. Defending and Defining the New Neighborhood: The Politics of Exclusion in Royal Oak, 1940-1955

 

Chapter 7. Saying Race Out Loud: The Politics of Exclusion in Dearborn, 1940-1955

 

Chapter 8. The National Is Local: Race and Development in an Era of Civil Rights Protest, 1955-1964

 

Chapter 9. Colored Property and White Backlash

 

List of Abbreviations

Notes

Index

 

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