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Race Brokers

Housing Markets and Segregation in 21st Century Urban America

Korver-Glenn, Elizabeth (Assistant Professor of Sociology, Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of New Mexico)

Race Brokers

Race Brokers

Housing Markets and Segregation in 21st Century Urban America

Race Brokers

 

Race Brokers shows how housing market professionals contribute to unequal housing opportunities, neighborhood inequality and racial segregation through racist practices. The book tracks how professionals broker racism across the housing exchange process--from the home's construction, to real estate brokerage, mortgage lending, home appraisals, and the home sale closing.


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Beschrijving Race Brokers

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.


ISBN
9780190063863
Pagina's
232
Verschenen
NUR
741
Druk
1
Uitvoering
Hardback
Taal
Engels
Uitgever
OUP USA

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