Saving the Neighborhood
Saving the Neighborhood tells the still controversial story of the rise and fall of racially restrictive covenants in America, which bestowed an aura of legitimacy upon the wish of many white neighborhoods to exclude minorities. It offers insight into the ways legal and social norms reinforce one another, to codify and perpetuate intolerance.
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Saving the Neighborhood
Saving the Neighborhood tells the still controversial story of the rise and fall of racially restrictive covenants in America, which bestowed an aura of legitimacy upon the wish of many white neighborhoods to exclude minorities. It offers insight into the ways legal and social norms reinforce one another, to codify and perpetuate intolerance.
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Saving the Neighborhood

Saving the Neighborhood

by Richard R. W. Brooks
Saving the Neighborhood

Saving the Neighborhood

by Richard R. W. Brooks

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Saving the Neighborhood tells the still controversial story of the rise and fall of racially restrictive covenants in America, which bestowed an aura of legitimacy upon the wish of many white neighborhoods to exclude minorities. It offers insight into the ways legal and social norms reinforce one another, to codify and perpetuate intolerance.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780674073715
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 04/01/2013
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
File size: 828 KB

Table of Contents

Contents 1. Introduction: Recalling Racialized Property 2. Before Covenants 3. The Big Guns Silenced: How Racial Covenants Overcame Major Objections from Constitutional Law, Property Law, and Corporations Law 4. Pushing Down the Ghosts: Covenant Development and Unseen Legal Influences 5. The Calculus of Covenants 6. The Emergence of the Norm Breakers 7. The Great Dilemma for Legal Norms: Shelley and State Action 8. After Shelley: Reactions, Evasions, Substitutions 9. Changing Games in the Twilight of Covenants: Signals, Tipping Points, and Quotas 10. Conclusion: Covenants’ Legacy Notes Acknowledgments Index
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