The Residential Is Racial: A Perceptual History of Mass Homeownership

Author:   Adrienne Brown
Publisher:   Stanford University Press
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9781503638648


Pages:   406
Publication Date:   26 March 2024
Format:   Paperback
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Author:   Adrienne Brown
Publisher:   Stanford University Press
Imprint:   Stanford University Press
ISBN:  

9781503638648


ISBN 10:   1503638642
Pages:   406
Publication Date:   26 March 2024
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   To order   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Introduction 1. Empire Builders: The Racial Longings of Modern Real Estate 2. Scoring Housing's Modern Jazzy Sound at the Rent Party 3. Making Ownership Feel Good Again: Rewriting the Land Man after the Great Depression 4. Appraisal Manuals: Looking at Residential Looking on the Midcentury Block 5. Feeling Racial Attachments to Property with John Cheever and Lorraine Hansberry 6. What Does Institutional Racism Look Like? The Investigative Aesthetics of Fair Housing Epilogue: Resurrection City and Beverly Hills, Chicago

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"""Brown offers us a wide-ranging provocation about the role of perception in shaping the link between mass homeownership and the changing meaning of racial difference. This is a work of ambitious investigation that results in many gifts of scholarly precision, narrative refinement, and historical recovery.""—Davarian L. Baldwin, Trinity College ""The Residential is Racial assembles a wide range of texts and deploys a keen archival sensibility to argue that racial perceptions have played an outsize role in promoting mass homeownership in the United States. An illuminating account of real estate's perceptual and affective color lines, this book asks for a reassessment of exactly what kind of values Americans attach to owning a home at all.""—Kinohi Nishikawa, Princeton University ""Brown's incomparable study makes that case that we cannot understand property rights without comprehending the affective logic of racialized ownership. Chapter by chapter, Brown makes visible for readers the vapor trails of how racial perceptions formed in the twentieth century.""—Mabel O. Wilson, Columbia University"


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Adrienne Brown is Associate Professor in the Departments of English and Race, Diaspora, and Indigeneity, University of Chicago.

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