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Race, Real Estate, and Uneven Development: The Kansas City Experience, 1900-2000
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Product Description
The origins, development, and consequences of racial segregation in Kansas City.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #305997 in Books
- Published on: 2002-07
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Paperback
- 204 pages
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From the Back Cover
Traditional explanations of metropolitan development and urban racial segregation have emphasized the role of consumer demand and market dynamics. In Race, Real Estate, and Uneven Development: The Kansas City Experience, 1900-2000, Kevin Fox Gotham reexamines the assumptions behind these explanations and offers a provocative new thesis. Using the Kansas City metropolitan area as a case study, Gotham provides both quantitative and qualitative documentation of the role the real estate industry and the Federal Housing Administration, demonstrating how these institutions have promulgated racial residential segregation and uneven development. Gotham challenges contemporary explanations while providing fresh insights into the racialization of metropolitan space, the interlocking dimensions of class and race in metropolitan development, and the importance of analyzing housing as a system of social stratification.
About the Author
Kevin Fox Gotham is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Tulane University.
