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

Korver-Glenn, Elizabeth

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How is it that America's cities remain almost as segregated as they were fifty years ago? In Race Brokers, Elizabeth Korver-Glenn examines how housing market professionals--including housing developers, real estate agents, mortgage lenders, and appraisers--construct contemporary urban housing markets in ways that contribute to neighborhood inequality and racial segregation. Drawing on extensive ethnographic and interview data collected in Houston, Texas, Korver-Glenn shows how these professionals, especially those who are White, use racist tools to build a fundamentally unequal housing market and are even encouraged to apply racist ideas to market activity and interactions. Korver-Glenn further tracks how professionals broker racism across the entirety of the housing exchange process--from the home's construction, to real estate brokerage, mortgage lending, home appraisals, and the home sale closing. Race Brokers highlights the imperative to interrupt the racism that pervades housing market professionals' work, dismantle the racialized routines that underwrite such racism, and cultivate a truly fair housing market.

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OXFORD UNIV PR

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Social Science

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Paperback

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8.9 Inches

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5.9 Inches

Publication Date

1970-01-01

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0.8 Inches

ISBN 10

0190063874

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1.0 Pounds

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9780190063870

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Adults

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