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The Culture of Property - Race, Class, and Housing Landscapes in Atlanta, 1880-1950 (Hardcover, New)
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The Culture of Property - Race, Class, and Housing Landscapes in Atlanta, 1880-1950 (Hardcover, New)
Series: Politics and Culture in the Twentieth Century South
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This is a history of the cultural biases undergirding housing
segregation. This history of the idea of 'neighborhood' in a major
American city examines the transition of Atlanta, Georgia, from a
place little concerned with residential segregation, tasteful
surroundings, and property control to one marked by extreme
concentrations of poverty and racial and class exclusion. Using
Atlanta as a lens to view the wider nation, LeeAnn Lands shows how
assumptions about race and class have coalesced with attitudes
toward residential landscape aesthetics and home ownership to shape
public policies that promote and protect white privilege. Lands
studies the diffusion of property ideologies on two separate but
related levels: within academic, professional, and bureaucratic
circles and within circles comprising civic elites and
rank-and-file residents. By the 1920s, following the establishment
of park neighborhoods such as Druid Hills and Ansley Park, white
home owners approached housing and neighborhoods with a particular
collection of desires and sensibilities: architectural and
landscape continuity, a narrow range of housing values,
orderliness, and separation from undesirable land uses - and
undesirable people. By the 1950s, these desires and sensibilities
had been codified in federal, state, and local standards,
practices, and laws. Today, Lands argues, far more is at stake than
issues of access to particular neighborhoods, because housing
location is tied to the allocation of a broad range of resources,
including school funding, infrastructure, and law enforcement. Long
after racial segregation has been outlawed, white privilege remains
embedded in our culture of home ownership.
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