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Series
Research on economic inequality volume 17
Publisher
Emerald Group
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
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Series
Sustainable urban areas volume 32
Publisher
Delft University Press
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Brookings Institution Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Much ink has been spilled in recent years talking about political divides and inequality in the United States. But these discussions too often miss one of the most important factors in the divisions among Americans: the fundamentally unequal nature of the nation's housing systems. Financially well-off Americans can afford comfortable, stable homes in desirable communities. Millions of other Americans cannot. And this divide deepens other inequalities....
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Language
English
Description
"Richard Rothstein explodes the myth that America's cities came to be racially divided through de facto segregation -- that is, through individual prejudices, income differences, or the actions of private institutions like banks and real estate agencies. Rather, The Color of Law incontrovertibly makes it clear that it was de jure segregation -- the laws and policy decisions passed by local, state, and federal governments -- that actually promoted...
Author
Publisher
Island Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"What if scrapping one flawed policy could bring US cities closer to addressing debilitating housing shortages, stunted growth and innovation, persistent racial and economic segregation, and car-dependent development? It's time for America to move beyond zoning, argues city planner M. Nolan Gray in Arbitrary Lines: How Zoning Broke the American City and How to Fix It. With lively explanations and stories, Gray shows why zoning abolition is a necessary-if...
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Series
Census 2000 special reports volume CENSR-3
Publisher
U.S. Census Bureau
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Author
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
"Don't let the sun go down on you in this town." We equate these words with the Jim Crow South but, in a sweeping analysis of American residential patterns, award-winning and bestselling author James W. Loewen demonstrates that strict racial exclusion was the norm in American towns and villages from sea to shining sea for much of the twentieth century.
Weaving history, personal narrative, and hard-nosed analysis, Loewen shows that the sundown town...
Weaving history, personal narrative, and hard-nosed analysis, Loewen shows that the sundown town...
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Series
Publisher
Essential Library, an imprint of ABDO Publishing
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Racism has been written into the United States' laws and entrenched in its institutions for much of its history. Native Americans weren't granted citizenship until 1924. Before the mid-1900s, students of color were pushed into segregated schools. And manystates maintained laws against interracial marriages until 1967. In the Race and American Law series, readers will look at how court cases and government actions have moved toward more equality...
Publisher
Brookings Institution Press
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
"A multidisciplinary examination of the social and economic changes resulting from increased diversity and their implications for economic opportunity and growth given persistent patterns of segregation by race and class, offering both public policy and private initiatives that would respond to those challenges"--Provided by publisher.