Hate Thy Neighbor : Move-In Violence and the Persistence of Racial Segregation in American Housing / Jeannine Bell.
2013
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Hate Thy Neighbor : Move-In Violence and the Persistence of Racial Segregation in American Housing / Jeannine Bell.
Author
Bell, Jeannine, author.
ISBN
9780814760222
Published
New York, NY : : New York University Press, [2013]
Copyright
©2013
Language
English
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In English.
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1 online resource
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10.18574/nyu/9780814791448.001.0001 doi
Dewey Decimal Classification
363.51
Summary
Despite increasingracial tolerance and national diversity, neighborhood segregation remains avery real problem in cities across America. Scholars, government officials, andthe general public have long attempted to understand why segregation persistsdespite efforts to combat it, traditionally focusing on the issue of "whiteflight," or the idea that white residents will move to other areas if theirneighborhood becomes integrated. In HateThy Neighbor, Jeannine Bell expands upon these understandings byinvestigating a little-examined but surprisingly prevalent problem of "move-inviolence:" the anti-integration violence directed by white residents atminorities who move into their neighborhoods. Apprehensive about their newneighbors and worried about declining property values, these residents resortto extra-legal violence and intimidation tactics, often using vandalism andverbal harassment to combat what they view as a violation of their territory.Hate Thy Neighbor is the first work to seriously examine therole violence plays in maintaining housing segregation, illustrating howintimidation and fear are employed to force minorities back into separateneighborhoods and prevent meaningful integration. Drawing on evidence thatincludes in-depth interviews with ordinary citizens and analysis of FairHousing Act cases, Bell provides a moving examination of how neighborhoodracial violence is enabled today and how it harms not only the victims, butentire communities.By finally sheddinglight on this disturbing phenomenon, HateThy Neighbor not only enhances our understanding of how prevalentsegregation and this type of hate-crime remain, but also offers insightfulanalysis of a complex mix of remedies that can work to address this difficultproblem.
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Table of Contents
Frontmatter
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. The Roots of Contemporary Move-In Violence
2. The Contemporary Dynamics of Move-In Violence
3. Anti-Integrationist Violence and the Tolerance-Violence Paradox
4. Racism or Power?
5. When Class Trumps Race
6. Responding to Neighborhood Hate Crimes
Conclusion
Notes
Index
About the Author
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. The Roots of Contemporary Move-In Violence
2. The Contemporary Dynamics of Move-In Violence
3. Anti-Integrationist Violence and the Tolerance-Violence Paradox
4. Racism or Power?
5. When Class Trumps Race
6. Responding to Neighborhood Hate Crimes
Conclusion
Notes
Index
About the Author