Race Brokers - Housing Markets and Segregation in 21st Century Urban America

Race Brokers shows how housing market professionals contribute to unequal housing opportunities, neighborhood inequality and racial segregation through racist practices. The book tracks how professionals broker racism across the housing exchange process-from the home's construction, to real estate brokerage, mortgage lending, home appraisals, and the home sale closing.

About the author

Elizabeth Korver-Glenn is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of New Mexico. Her award-winning research has been published in American Sociological Review, Social Problems, Social Currents, Sociology of Race and Ethnicity, and City & Community, among other peer-reviewed outlets. Her work has also been featured in national news outlets, including The Washington Post.

Summary

Race Brokers shows how housing market professionals contribute to unequal housing opportunities, neighborhood inequality and racial segregation through racist practices. The book tracks how professionals broker racism across the housing exchange process--from the home's construction, to real estate brokerage, mortgage lending, home appraisals, and the home sale closing.

Additional text

Race Brokers: Housing Markets and Segregation in 21st Century Urban America...is an engaging and compelling ethnography that convincingly argues that racial segregation is not the by-product of "natural" or "race-neutral" factors...the book shows that segregation results from the racist practices of a constellation of housing market professionals.

Product details

• Authors: Korver-Glenn , Elizabeth Korver-Glenn, Elizabeth (Assistant Professor of So Korver-Glenn
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2021
• EAN: 9780190063863
• ISBN: 978-0-19-006386-3
• No. of pages: 236
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Folklore; Ethnic Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Rural, Rural communities, Social discrimination & inequality, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination, Social discrimination and social justice, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General, Rural communities / rural life