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

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

Antero Pietila

320 pages first pub 2010 (editions)

nonfiction history politics challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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Eugenics, racial thinking, and white supremacist attitudes influenced even the federal government's actions toward housing in the 20th century, dooming American cities to ghettoization. The Federal Housing Administration continued discriminatory h...

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