Freedom to Discriminate
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978-1-59714-543-5 (ISBN)
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A landmark history told with supreme narrative skill, Freedom to Discriminate uncovers realtors’ definitive role in segregating America and shaping modern conservative thought. Gene Slater follows this story from inside the realtor profession, drawing on many industry documents that have remained unexamined until now. His book traces the increasingly aggressive ways realtors justified their practices, how they successfully weaponized the word “freedom” for their cause, and how conservative politicians have drawn directly from realtors’ rhetoric for the past several decades. Much of this story takes place in California, and Slater demonstrates why one of the very first all-white neighborhoods was in Berkeley, and why the state was the perfect place for Ronald Reagan’s political ascension.
The hinge point in this history is Proposition 14, a largely forgotten but monumentally important 1964 ballot initiative. Created and promoted by California realtors, the proposition sought to uphold housing discrimination permanently in the state’s constitution, and a vast majority of Californians voted for it. This vote had explosive consequences—ones that still inform our deepest political divisions today—and a true reckoning with the history of American racism requires a closer look at the events leading up to it. Freedom to Discriminate shatters preconceptions about American segregation, and it connects many seemingly disparate aspects of the nation’s history in a novel and galvanizing way.
Gene Slater has served as senior advisor on housing for federal, state, and local agencies for over forty years. Slater cofounded and chairs CSG Advisors, which has been one of the nation’s leading advisors on affordable housing for decades. His projects have received numerous national awards, and in the aftermath of the financial crisis in 2009 he helped design the program by which the United States Treasury financed homes for 110,000 first-time buyers. He holds degrees from Columbia, MIT, and Stanford. Born and raised in Brooklyn, he now lives in the Bay Area.
Introduction: Gettysburg 1964
Part One. Limiting Individual Freedom for the Common Good: Early 1900s–Early 1920s
1. Progressive Reformers of Real Estate
2. The Public Power of a Private Club
3. It’s the Restrictions on Your Neighbors Which Count
4. Implementing Racial Exclusion
Part Two. An Ideology to Institutionalize Segregation: Early 1920s–Late 1940s
5. Undesirable Human Elements
6. Shaping Federal Housing Programs
7. Reconciling the War against Hitler with a New Racial Entitlement
Part Three. Freedom of Association: Late 1940s–Late 1950s
8. Defending Racial Covenants
9. Recommitting to Segregation after Shelley
10. Using Freedom of Association to Intensify Segregation
11. The Idea of a National Conservative Party
Part Four. Freedom of Choice: Late 1950s–June 1963
12. Struggling for an Ideology to Defend against Fair Housing
13. Creating a Standardized Ideology of Freedom
Part Five. A National Crusade in California: June 1963–November 1964
14. A Constitutional Amendment to Permanently Protect Discrimination
15. Racial Moderation to Continue Segregation
16. Redefining Freedom and America’s Founding
17. A Battle between Two Visions of Freedom
Part Six. An Earthquake: 1965–1968
18. Reagan and the Realtors
19. Realtor Victories against Fair Housing
20. To Defeat the Realtors
21. An Ideology of Freedom for a National Conservative Party
Part Seven. American Legacy: 1969–
22. The Continuation of Residential Segregation
23. A Legacy for Civil Rights
24. Who American Freedom is for
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography and Works Cited
About the Author
| Erscheinungsdatum | 28.06.2021 |
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| Zusatzinfo | Illustrations |
| Verlagsort | Berkeley |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 228 mm |
| Themenwelt | Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht |
| Recht / Steuern ► Privatrecht / Bürgerliches Recht ► Baurecht (privat) | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-59714-543-2 / 1597145432 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-59714-543-5 / 9781597145435 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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