Beschreibung:
Housing experts and activists have long described the foundational role race has played in the creation of mass homeownership. This book insistently tracks the inverse: the role of mass homeownership in changing the definition, perception, and value of race.
Introduction1. Empire Builders: The Racial Longings of Modern Real Estate2. Scoring Housing's Modern Jazzy Sound at the Rent Party3. Making Ownership Feel Good Again: Rewriting the Land Man after the Great Depression4. Appraisal Manuals: Looking at Residential Looking on the Midcentury Block5. Feeling Racial Attachments to Property with John Cheever and Lorraine Hansberry6. What Does Institutional Racism Look Like? The Investigative Aesthetics of Fair HousingEpilogue: Resurrection City and Beverly Hills, Chicago