Awards
- Winner of Winner, 2023 Viviana Zelizer Award Winner, 2023 Robert E. Park Award.
Overview
How is it that America's cities remain almost as segregated as they were fifty years ago? In Race Brokers, Elizabeth Korver-Glenn examines how housing market professionals--including housing developers, real estate agents, mortgage lenders, and appraisers--construct contemporary urban housing markets in ways that contribute to neighborhood inequality and racial segregation. Drawing on extensive ethnographic and interview data collected in Houston, Texas, Korver-Glenn shows how these professionals, especially those who are White, use racist tools to build a fundamentally unequal housing market and are even encouraged to apply racist ideas to market activity and interactions. Korver-Glenn further tracks how professionals broker racism across the entirety of the housing exchange process--from the home's construction, to real estate brokerage, mortgage lending, home appraisals, and the home sale closing. Race Brokers highlights the imperative to interrupt the racism that pervades housing market professionals' work, dismantle the racialized routines that underwrite such racism, and cultivate a truly fair housing market.
Full Product Details
Author: Elizabeth Korver-Glenn (Assistant Professor of Sociology, Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of New Mexico)
Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc
Dimensions:
Width: 22.60cm
, Height: 2.00cm
, Length: 15.00cm
Weight: 0.454kg
ISBN: 9780190063870
ISBN 10: 0190063874
Pages: 240
Publication Date: 26 August 2021
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
I highly recommend Korver-Glenn's book to housing scholars for both its important methodological intervention and her insights from the field. For housing practitioners and policymakers, I recommend the penultimate recommendations chapter, which has implementable policies for regulation and oversight, such as recommendations for building a more just appraising profession. * Stephen Sherman, Journal of the American Planning Association * an original case study * A.E Kulikowski, CHOICE Connect, Vol. 59 No. 8 *
an original case study * A.E Kulikowski, CHOICE Connect, Vol. 59 No. 8 *
Author Information
Elizabeth Korver-Glenn is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of New Mexico. Her award-winning research has been published in American Sociological Review, Social Problems, Social Currents, Sociology of Race and Ethnicity, and City & Community, among other peer-reviewed outlets. Her work has also been featured in national news outlets, including The Washington Post.
