Saving the Neighborhood - Racially Restrictive Covenants, Law, and Social Norms

Informationen zum Autor Richard R. W. Brooks is Leighton Homer Surbeck Professor of Law at Yale Law School. Klappentext Saving the Neighborhood tells the still controversial story of the rise and fall of racially restrictive covenants in America, which bestowed an aura of legitimacy upon the wish of many white neighborhoods to exclude minorities. It offers insight into the ways legal and social norms reinforce one another, to codify and perpetuate intolerance. Zusammenfassung Saving the Neighborhood tells the still controversial story of the rise and fall of racially restrictive covenants in America! which bestowed an aura of legitimacy upon the wish of many white neighborhoods to exclude minorities. It offers insight into the ways legal and social norms reinforce one another! to codify and perpetuate intolerance.

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• Authors: Richard R W Brooks, Richard R. W. Brooks, Richard R. W. Rose Brooks, Richard Rexford Wayne Brooks, Richard Rexford Wayne Rose Brooks, Richard RW Brooks, Carol M Rose, Carol M. Rose, Rose Carol M.
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.04.2013
• EAN: 9780674072541
• ISBN: 978-0-674-07254-1
• No. of pages: 304
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Law > Civil law, civil procedural law; Human rights & civil liberties law, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, LAW / Civil Rights, LAW / Housing & Urban Development, LAW / Property, Legal History, United States of America, USA, Ethnic groups and multicultural studies, Urban communities, Law: Human rights and civil liberties, Housing law, property law