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Family Properties: Race, Real Estate, and the Exploitation of Black Urban America In this powerful book, Beryl Satter identifies the true causes of the city’s black slums and the ruin of urban neighborhoods throughout the country: not, as some have argued, black pathology, t

Title	:	Family Properties: Race, Real Estate, and the Exploitation of Black Urban America
Author	:	Beryl Satter
Rating	:	4.77 (498 Votes)
Id Book	:	080507676X
Format Type	:	Hardcover
Number of Pages	:	512 Pages
Publish Date	:	2009-03-17
Type File	:	PDF, DOC, RTF, ePub

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Part family story and part urban history, a landmark investigation of segregation and urban decay in Chicago—and cities across the nationThe "promised land" for thousands of Southern blacks, postwar Chicago quickly became the most segregated city in the North, the site of the nation’s worst ghettos and the target of Martin Luther King Jr.’s first campaign beyond the South. In this powerful book, Beryl Satter identifies the true causes of the city’s black slums and the ruin of urban neighborhoods throughout the country: not, as some have argued, black pathology, the culture of poverty, or white flight, but a widespread and institutionalized system of legal and financial exploitation. In Satter’s riveting account of a city in crisis, unscrupulous lawyers, slumlords, and speculators are pitched against religious reformers, community organizers, and an impassioned attorney who launched a crusade against the profiteers—the author’s father, Mark J. S

The problems will stretch your skills, as many of them are nonroutine. Family Properties: Race, Real Estate, and the Exploitation of Black Urban America
This is one terrific book -- focused, hard-hitting and extremely readable. Everything can be sweeter when time may be short. One of the best books I've found on auditioning. The book is an excellent resource for the Church historian interested in the great basilicas and other religous structures of the City. Oh, we could say that in the end love wins too, so long as we are acknowledging along with the Bible that those who love themselves, and thereby hate God, will suffer eternal defeat in hell. Reading the first book in this series is a must if a reader really wants to appreciate the complexities of the relationship between Alexander and Elizabeth. Having said that, I don't think this book would suit those who wanted to know how Augustus spun his way to the tribunician power, for instance.

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