Saving the Neighborhood: Racially Restrictive Covenants, Law, and Social Norms

by Carol M. Rose and Richard Rexford Wayne Brooks

Saving the Neighborhood tells the charged, still controversial story of the rise and fall of racially restrictive covenants in America, and offers rare insight into the ways legal and social norms reinforce one another, acting with pernicious efficacy to codify and perpetuate intolerance.

The early 1900s saw an unprecedented migration of African Americans leaving the rural South in search of better work and equal citizenship. In reaction,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674072545
• ISBN13: 9780674072541
• Release Date: April 2013
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.5" x 9.3"