Richard R. W. Brooks is Leighton Homer Surbeck Professor of Law at Yale Law School. Carol M. Rose is Gordon Bradford Tweedy Professor Emeritus of Law and Organization and Professorial Lecturer in Law at Yale Law School and Lohse Professor of Law at the University of Arizona.
Saving the Neighborhood vividly analyzes the rise, fall, and
enduring legacy of the major legal tool that created segregated
housing in the United States. At the same time, this book is a
moving account of real communities--of fearful residents struggling
to control fragile city blocks, visionaries willing to risk
everything for justice, and hustlers driven to profit from the
hopes and hatreds that have defined the American experience. --
Daniel J. Sharfstein, author of The Invisible Line: A Secret
History of Race in America
A brilliant and disturbing history of how racial restrictions
designed to keep black homeowners out of white neighborhoods became
legally respectable and socially pervasive, and a powerful and
subtle meditation on the interplay between law, violence, and
social norms. -- Robert W. Gordon, Stanford Law School
Saving the Neighborhood makes a convincing case for the
proposition that the effect of legal provisions can be fully
understood only in the context of relevant social norms, economic
incentives, and informal influences. -- M. E. Ethridge * Choice *
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