Colored Property

State Policy and White Racial Politics in Suburban America

By: David M. P. Freund

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Paperback | 15 May 2010 | Edition Number 1

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Northern whites in the post-World War II era began to support the principle of civil rights, so why did many of them continue to oppose racial integration in their communities? Challenging conventional wisdom about the growth, prosperity, and racial exclusivity of American suburbs, David M. P. Freund argues that previous attempts to answer this question have overlooked a change in the racial thinking of whites and the role of suburban politics in effecting this change. In Colored Property, he shows how federal intervention spurred a dramatic shift in the language and logic of residential exclusionâ"away from invocations of a mythical racial hierarchy and toward talk of markets, property, and citizenship.

Freund begins his exploration by tracing 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 visits zoning board and city council meetings, details the efforts of neighborhood "property improvement" associations, and reconstructs battles over race and housing to demonstrate 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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"A creative, vital entry point to explore the tangle of federal mortgage financing, housing reform, and deep-seated racism.... This well-written, much-needed study brings together the realms of urban history, race relations, and economic opportunity." - Choice "Freund's book unravels the ties that bound (and bind) race and property, and, in the process, shows how that linkage altered white racial ideals and politics in postwar America." - Andrew Wiese, "Journal of American History."

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Acknowledgments	p. ix
The New Politics of Race and Property	p. 1
The Political Economy of Suburban Development and the Race of Economic Value, 1910-1970
Local Control and the Rights of Property: The Politics of Incorporation, Zoning, and Race before 1940	p. 45
Financing Suburban Growth: Federal Policy and the Birth of a Racialized Market for Homes, 1930-1940	p. 99
Putting Private Capital Back to Work: The Logic of Federal Intervention, 1930-1940	p. 140
A Free Market for Housing: Policy, Growth, and Exclusion in Suburbia, 1940-1970	p. 176
Race and Development in Metropolitan Detroit, 1940-1970
Defending and Defining the New Neighborhood: The Politics of Exclusion in Royal Oak, 1940-1955	p. 243
Saying Race Out Loud: The Politics of Exclusion in Dearborn, 1940-1955	p. 284
The National Is Local: Race and Development in an Era of Civil Rights Protest, 1955-1964	p. 328
Colored Property and White Backlash	p. 382
Abbreviations	p. 401
Notes	p. 405
Index	p. 489
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