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Race, Ethnicity, and Real Estate Appraisal: The Home Owners Loan Corporation and the Federal Housing Administration

Kenneth T. Jackson
- 01 Aug 1980 - 
- Vol. 6, Iss: 4, pp 419-452
TLDR
The provision of good houses may prove one of the most potent agents in the conversion of unrest into contentment, as stated by King George V and Franklin D. Roosevelt as mentioned in this paper.
Abstract
If a healthy race is to be reared, it can be reared only in healthy homes; if infant mortality is to be reduced and tuberculosis to be stamped out, the first essential is the improvement of housing conditions; if drink and crime are to be successfully combated, decent sanitary houses must be provided. If \"unrest\" is to be converted into contentment, the provision of good houses may prove one of the most potent agents in that conversion. King George V, 1919 A nation of homeowners, of people who own a real share in their own land, is unconquerable. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1933

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Rethinking Environmental Racism: White Privilege and Urban Development in Southern California

TL;DR: The authors argue that although racism is rarely explicitly discussed, a normative conceptualization of racism informs the research and that this prevailing conception overly narrow and restrictive, it also denies the spatiality of racism.
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The Long Civil Rights Movement and the Political Uses of the Past

TL;DR: The civil rights movement circulates through American memory in forms and through channels that are at once powerful, dangerous, and hotly contested as mentioned in this paper. But remembering is always a form of forgetting.
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Current bibliography of urban history

Diana Dixon, +1 more
- 01 May 1981 - 
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a continuation of and a complement to those published in the Urban History Yearbook 1974-91 and Urban History 1992-2002, and an index of towns on pp. 504-507.
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Redlining and the Home Owners' Loan Corporation:

TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyzed the impact of the residential security maps created by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation (HOLC) during the 1930s on residential mortgages in Philadelphia.
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Sociological Perspectives on Racial Discrimination

TL;DR: The authors argue that institutional discrimination can take at least two forms, organizational and legal, and that in both forms the decisions of a contemporary actor to discriminate can be immaterial; institutional discrimination is a vehicle through which past discrimination has contemporary consequences; and whether actors perceive they have experienced discrimination deserves attention in its own right.
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Financing Home Ownership: The Federal Role In Neighborhood Decline

TL;DR: The authors traces federal housing policies related to single-family home ownership from their creation in the 1930s to the present, focusing on policies of the Federal Housing Administration and the Federal Home Loan Bank Board and other federal regulators of financial institutions.