Not in My Neighborhood: How Bigotry Shaped a Great American City

by Antero Pietila

Book Overview

Baltimore is the setting for (and typifies) one of the most penetrating examinations of bigotry and residential segregation ever published in the United States. Antero Pietila shows how continued discrimination practices toward African Americans and Jews have shaped the cities in which we now live. Eugenics, racial thinking, and white supremacist attitudes influenced even the federal government's actions toward housing in the 20th century, dooming...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1566638437
• ISBN13: 9781566638432
• Release Date: March 2010
• Publisher: Ivan R. Dee Publisher
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.6" x 9.2"