Race and Real Estate

Race and Real Estate brings together new work by architects, sociologists, legal scholars, and literary critics that qualifies and complicates traditional narratives of race, property, and citizenship in the United States.

Adrienne Brown is Assistant Professor of English, University of Chicago.
Valerie Smith is Dean of the College and Woodrow Wilson Professor of Literature, Department of English and African American Studies at Princeton University.
Kim Lane Scheppele is Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs in the Woodrow Wilson School and the University Center for Human Values, Director of the Program in Law and Public Affairs at Princeton University

1. Introduction - Adrienne Brown
2. Black, Brown and Green: The Persistent Effect of Race in Home Mortgage Lending - Georgette Chapman Phillips
3. Hating the Neighbors: Minority Housing Integration and Racialized Boundaries - Jeannine Bell
4. Is Voluntary Residential Segregation Voluntary? - Karyn Lacy
5. Land, Race and Property Rights in American Development - Patricia Fernandez Kelly
6. Opening the Black Box of Segregation: Real Estate and Racial Health Disparities -Abigail Sewell
7. Place and Real Estate: The Question of Community in Danticat's The Dew Breaker - June Dwyer
8. Racial Resources in Public Conflicts Over Property - Debbie Becher
9. Black Folk, Brownstones: Mat Johnson's Hunting Harlem - William Gleason
10. Racial Covenants and Housing Segregation, Yesterday and Today - Richard R. W. Brooks and Carol Rose
11. 'My Hole is Warm and Full of Light': The Sub-Urban Real Estate of Invisible Man
12. Other Side of the 'Free' Way: City Planning and Racialized Territories in the Wake of Massive Resistance - K. Ian Grandison
13. Chess Moves on a Checkerboard: Heritage Tourism, University Life, and the New Faces of Gentriciation - Davarian Baldwin
14. Sheree's Home - Jeffrey Togman
15. Once Upon a Dream: Documenting Black Homeownership - Regina Austin
16. The Slave in the Great House: 'The Star-Apple Kingdom,' Property, and the Plantation - Sonya Posmentier