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.

List of contents

• Acknowledgements


• Introduction


• Chapter 1: H-Town


• Chapter 2: Building Race


• Chapter 3: Brokering Sales


• Chapter 4: Lending Capital


• Chapter 5: Appraising Value


• Chapter 6: Fair Housing


• Conclusion


• Methodological Appendix


• References


• Notes


• Index

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

For scholars of neighborhoods, housing, and racial segregation, Dr. Korver-Glenn offers an insightful look into the role of real estate professionals in patterning inequality and reifying racial segregation.... Dr. Korver-Glenn offers an opportunity to apply the Race Brokers framework beyond the field of housing, helping sociologists better understand how racist ideas and tropes inform other unequal power relationships and market exchanges.

Product details

• Authors: Korver-Glenn , Elizabeth Korver-Glenn, Elizabeth (Assistant Professor of So Korver-Glenn, Elizabeth (Assistant Professor of Sociology Korver-Glenn
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.06.2021
• EAN: 9780190063870
• ISBN: 978-0-19-006387-0
• No. of pages: 232
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work; 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