Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Adrienne Brown and Valerie Smith
  • Falling values : race and real estate and the current crisis. Black, brown, and green : the persistent effect of race in home mortgage lending / Georgette Chapman Phillips ; Hate next door : housing integration and racialized boundaries / Jeannine Bell ; Is voluntary residential segregation really voluntary? / Karyn Lacy ; Land, race, and property rights in American development / Patricia Fernandez-Kelly ; Opening the black box of segregation : real estate and racial health disparities / Abigail A. Sewell
  • Living i on the ground : subjective approaches to crisis. Place and real estate : the question of community in Edwidge Danticat's "The Dew Breaker" / June Dwyer ; Race as a set of symbolic resources : mobilization in the politics of eminent domain / Debbie Becher ; Black folk, brownstones : Mat Johnson's "Hunting in Harlem" / William Gleason
  • Flipping history : finding new homes in old spaces. Racial covenants and housing segregation, yesterday and today / Carol M. Rose and Richard R. W. Brooks ; "My Hole is Warm and Full of Light" : The sub-urban real estate of "Invisible Man" / Adrienne Brown ; The other side of the "Free" way : planning for "Separate But Equal" in the wake of massive resistance / E. Ian Grandison ; Chess moves on a checkerboard : heritage tourism, university life, and the new face(s) of "Urban Renewal" / Davarian L. Baldwin ; Sheree's home / Jeffrey M. Togman ; "This, too, takes a village" : the social basis of sustained black homeownership as illustrated in three documentary films / Regina Austin ; The slave in the great house : "The Star-Apple Kingdom," property, and the plantation / Sonya Posmentier.