Author: W. Edward Orser
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813148316
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
This innovative study of racial upheaval and urban transformation in Baltimore, Maryland investigates the impact of "blockbusting"—a practice in which real estate agents would sell a house on an all-white block to an African American family with the aim of igniting a panic among the other residents. These homeowners would often sell at a loss to move away, and the real estate agents would promote the properties at a drastic markup to African American buyers. In this groundbreaking book, W. Edward Orser examines Edmondson Village, a west Baltimore rowhouse community where an especially acute instance of blockbusting triggered white flight and racial change on a dramatic scale. Between 1955 and 1965, nearly twenty thousand white residents, who saw their secure world changing drastically, were replaced by blacks in search of the American dream. By buying low and selling high, playing on the fears of whites and the needs of African Americans, blockbusters set off a series of events that Orser calls "a collective trauma whose significance for recent American social and cultural history is still insufficiently appreciated and understood." Blockbusting in Baltimore describes a widely experienced but little analyzed phenomenon of recent social history. Orser makes an important contribution to community and urban studies, race relations, and records of the African American experience.
Blockbusting in Baltimore
Author: W. Edward Orser
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813148316
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
This innovative study of racial upheaval and urban transformation in Baltimore, Maryland investigates the impact of "blockbusting"—a practice in which real estate agents would sell a house on an all-white block to an African American family with the aim of igniting a panic among the other residents. These homeowners would often sell at a loss to move away, and the real estate agents would promote the properties at a drastic markup to African American buyers. In this groundbreaking book, W. Edward Orser examines Edmondson Village, a west Baltimore rowhouse community where an especially acute instance of blockbusting triggered white flight and racial change on a dramatic scale. Between 1955 and 1965, nearly twenty thousand white residents, who saw their secure world changing drastically, were replaced by blacks in search of the American dream. By buying low and selling high, playing on the fears of whites and the needs of African Americans, blockbusters set off a series of events that Orser calls "a collective trauma whose significance for recent American social and cultural history is still insufficiently appreciated and understood." Blockbusting in Baltimore describes a widely experienced but little analyzed phenomenon of recent social history. Orser makes an important contribution to community and urban studies, race relations, and records of the African American experience.
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813148316
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
This innovative study of racial upheaval and urban transformation in Baltimore, Maryland investigates the impact of "blockbusting"—a practice in which real estate agents would sell a house on an all-white block to an African American family with the aim of igniting a panic among the other residents. These homeowners would often sell at a loss to move away, and the real estate agents would promote the properties at a drastic markup to African American buyers. In this groundbreaking book, W. Edward Orser examines Edmondson Village, a west Baltimore rowhouse community where an especially acute instance of blockbusting triggered white flight and racial change on a dramatic scale. Between 1955 and 1965, nearly twenty thousand white residents, who saw their secure world changing drastically, were replaced by blacks in search of the American dream. By buying low and selling high, playing on the fears of whites and the needs of African Americans, blockbusters set off a series of events that Orser calls "a collective trauma whose significance for recent American social and cultural history is still insufficiently appreciated and understood." Blockbusting in Baltimore describes a widely experienced but little analyzed phenomenon of recent social history. Orser makes an important contribution to community and urban studies, race relations, and records of the African American experience.
Official Register of the United States
Author: United States Civil Service Commission
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Languages : en
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Official Register of the United States
Author: United States. Department of the Interior
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 736
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 736
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Official Register of the United States
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 890
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 890
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The Willett Family of Maryland
Author: Mary Louise Donnelly
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Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 720
Book Description
Edward Willett (1658-1744) immigrated from England to Prince George's County, Maryland before 1692. Descendants lived in Maryland, Kentucky, Ohio, Illinois, Texas, California and elsewhere.
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Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 720
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Edward Willett (1658-1744) immigrated from England to Prince George's County, Maryland before 1692. Descendants lived in Maryland, Kentucky, Ohio, Illinois, Texas, California and elsewhere.
Technical Bulletin
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Category : Agricultural estension work
Languages : en
Pages : 1654
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Category : Agricultural estension work
Languages : en
Pages : 1654
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Register of the Commissioned, Warrant, and Volunteer Officers of the Navy of the United States
Author: United States. Navy
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Languages : en
Pages : 988
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Languages : en
Pages : 988
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Handbook of Federal Statistics of Children
Author: United States. Children's Bureau
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Category : Child welfare
Languages : en
Pages : 1376
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Category : Child welfare
Languages : en
Pages : 1376
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Industrial Series, No. 1[-7]: (Bureau publication, no. 10) Child labor legislation in the United States. Federal. September 1916. 1916. HD6243.U5A4 1916
Author: United States. Children's Bureau
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Category : Child labor
Languages : en
Pages : 1164
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Category : Child labor
Languages : en
Pages : 1164
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Child Labor Legislation in the United States
Author: Helen Laura Sumner
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Category : Child labor
Languages : en
Pages : 1178
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Category : Child labor
Languages : en
Pages : 1178
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