Residential apartheid

the American legacy

Author: Robert Doyle Bullard
Secondary Author: J. Eugene Grigsby
ISBN: 0934934436

After some 25 years of federal civil rights legislation, fair housing goals have yet to be achieved for a large segment of America's population as housing & economic barriers continue to be the main cause of racially segregated neighborhoods. Today's housing & economic conditions in many of the nation's urban ghettos & barrios rival the conditions that contributed to the riots of the 1960s. What lessons have we learned from the past? How is our nation coping with the "new" urban crisis of the 1990s? RESIDENTIAL APARTHEID: THE AMERICAN LEGACY is a collection of papers commissioned by the United Church of Christ's Commission for Racial Justice to examine fair housing issues & today's urban crisis. Leading experts in the field of urban affairs tackle such subjects as institutional racism; the effects of race & class on residential segregation; discrimination in housing & neighborhoods; the fair housing movement & fair housing laws; discriminatory mortgage lending practices; redlining in L

Publisher: CAAS Publications
Publish Date: 1994

Subjects: African Americans/ Housing, African Americans, Discrimination in housing/ United States, Discrimination in housing, Housing, Race discrimination/ United States, Race discrimination, Race relations, United States, Law / Discrimination, Political Science / Public Policy / City Planning & Urban Development, Political Science / Public Policy / Social Policy, Social Science / General, Social Science / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies, Social Science / Discrimination & Race Relations

This book is available in the following Community Centers: Cross-Cultural Center (Location: Urban Studies & Class (URBN))