Review: How the Suburbs Were Segregated: Developers and the Business of Exclusionary Housing, 1890–1960
How the Suburbs Were Segregated: Developers and the Business of Exclusionary Housing, 1890–1960 by Paige GlotzerMy rating: 5 of 5 stars
Great focus, interesting story
The book is interesting because it adopts a "from bottom up" strategy that allows the author to deploy two tactics: 1) follow the money for the racially segregated suburbs in Baltimore, which ties her case study to global and colonial trends; and 2) she focuses on the developers decisions, which allow her to find traces of racism in the way Roland Park is created as a walled community, with restrictions that limit the potential buyers based on race, class and other considerations. It is a novel way to see the issue of racism in America and in the American housing market. However, I felt that the author made some generalizations out of a single case, which create the question if this racial capitalism is the only relevant focus on the US housing market and a general trend in suburban development or not. Also the narrative is a little dry but I think that gas to do with the type of sources the author uses.
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