Saving the Neighborhood : : Racially Restrictive Covenants, Law, and Social Norms / / Richard R. W. Brooks.
Saving the Neighborhood tells the charged, still controversial story of the rise and fall of racially restrictive covenants in America, and offers rare insight into the ways legal and social norms reinforce one another, acting with pernicious efficacy to codify and perpetuate intolerance. The early...
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Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2013] ©2013 |
Year of Publication: | 2013 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (304 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Before Covenants
- 3 The Big Guns Silenced
- 4 Pushing Down the Ghosts
- 5 The Calculus of Covenants
- 6 The Emergence of the Norm Breakers
- 7 The Great Dilemma for Legal Norms
- 8 After Shelley
- 9 Changing Games in the Twilight of Covenants
- 10 Conclusion
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
- Index