Blockbusting in Baltimore : The Edmondson Village Story

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This innovative study of racial upheaval and urban transformation in Baltimore, Maryland investigates the impact of ""blockbusting""--A practice in which real estate agents would sell a house on an all-white block to an African American family with the aim of igniting a panic amo...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Orser, W. Edward
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Lexington : The University Press of Kentucky, 1994.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Race relations.
Population.
Demographic transition.
African Americans > Segregation.
African Americans > Housing.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA)
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
Noirs americains > Segregation > Maryland > Baltimore.
Noirs americains > Logement > Maryland > Baltimore.
Transition demographique > Maryland > Baltimore.
African Americans > Segregation > Maryland > Baltimore.
African Americans > Housing > Maryland > Baltimore.
Demographic transition > Maryland > Baltimore.
Maryland > Baltimore > Edmondson Village.
Maryland > Baltimore.
Baltimore (Md.) > Population.
Edmondson Village (Baltimore, Md.) > Population.
Baltimore (Md.) > Race relations.
Edmondson Village (Baltimore, Md.) > Race relations.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:This innovative study of racial upheaval and urban transformation in Baltimore, Maryland investigates the impact of ""blockbusting""--A practice in which real estate agents would sell a house on an all-white block to an African American family with the aim of igniting a panic among the other residents. These homeowners would often sell at a loss to move away, and the real estate agents would promote the properties at a drastic markup to African American buyers. In this groundbreaking book, W. Edward Orser examines Edmondson Village, a west Baltimore rowhouse community where an especially acut.
Physical Description:1 online resource (256 pages).
ISBN:9780813148311

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