Blockbusting in Baltimore the Edmondson Village Story.
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TextPublication details: Lexington : The University Press of Kentucky, (c)1994.Description: 1 online resource (256 pages)Content type: - text
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- online resource
- 9780813148311
- Demographic transition -- Maryland -- Baltimore
- African Americans -- Housing -- Maryland -- Baltimore
- African Americans -- Segregation -- Maryland -- Baltimore
- African Americans -- Housing -- Maryland -- Baltimore
- African Americans -- Segregation -- Maryland -- Baltimore
- Baltimore (Md.) -- Population
- Baltimore (Md.) -- Race relations
- Demographic transition -- Maryland -- Baltimore
- Edmondson Village (Baltimore, Md.) -- Population
- Edmondson Village (Baltimore, Md.) -- Race relations
- F189 .B563 1994
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Includes bibliographies and index.
Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Maps and Figures; Preface; 1 The Trauma of Racial Change; 2 The Making of a Rowhouse Neighborhood; 3 Continuity and Undercurrents of Change; 4 A White Community Responds to Change; 5 African American Pioneers; 6 The Legacy of Blockbusting; Appendices; Appendix A: Suggested Reading ; Appendix B: Home Ownership on Selected Blocks, 1955-1973 ; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y.
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 acut.
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