Vol 7 – Issue 1 by Catalyst

Author:Catalyst
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-06-13T16:55:00+00:00

# Touré F. Reed, Toward Freedom: The Case Against Race Reductionism (New York: Verso, 2020).

# “My purpose has not been to plow new ground but to call attention to this body of work and to ask all of us to confront it together. Nonetheless, I have also dug up some relatively obscure documents, not because they were needed to prove the case — the authoritative earlier books I’ve mentioned did that quite well — but only to illustrate it.” Richard Rothstein, The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America (New York: Liveright, 2017), 244, 294, xvi; Robert C. Weaver, The Negro Ghetto (New York: Harcourt Brace, & Co., 1948).

# The academy has given intermittent attention to the problem of racial segregation and the government’s role in its reproduction. However, there have been landmark books such as Kenneth T. Jackson, Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States (New York: Oxford University Press, 1985), see especially chapter 11, “Federal Subsidy and the Suburban Dream: How Washington Changed the American Housing Market,” and Douglass S. Massey and Nancy A. Denton, American Apartheid: Segregation and the Making of the Underclass (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1993) that have forcefully criticized federal and local governments’ role in institutionalizing residential segregation.

# Ta-Nehisi Coates, “The Case for Reparations,” Atlantic, June 2014; Ta-Nehisi Coates, “The Case for Considering Reparations,” Atlantic, January 27, 2016.

# The Commission on Race and Housing was formed in 1955 and financed by the Fund for the Republic. It was an independent group of scholars, industrialists, real estate developers, and former federal housing officials. It was also a mixed-race group, including prominent African Americans in the housing field such as sociologist and president of Fisk University Charles Johnson and former chairman of the Chicago Housing Authority and executive director of the black-owned Illinois Federal Savings and Loan Association Robert Taylor, in Chicago, along with Robert Weaver, who was administrator of the Temporary State Housing Rent Commission, in New York. The commission published some important studies that were drawn upon by scholars and activists to counter the real estate industry’s assumptions about racially mixed neighborhoods, the racial bias of white real estate brokers, and the relationship between race and property. These reports included Eunice and George Grier, Privately Developed Interracial Housing: An Analysis of Experience (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1960); Chester Rapkin and William G. Grigsby, The Demand for Housing in Racially Mixed Areas: A Study of the Nature of Neighborhood Change (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1960); Luigi Laurenti, Property Values and Race: Studies in Seven Cities (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1960); and Rose Helper, “The Role of the Real Estate Business in Minority Group Housing: A Chicago Study” (1958). See also the commission’s preliminary and final reports: Commission on Race and Housing, Where Shall We Live? Report of the Commission on Race and Housing (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1958) and Davis McEntire, Residence and Race: Final and Comprehensive Report to the Commission on Race and Housing (Berkeley: University of California, 1960).

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