A World More Concrete: Real Estate and the Remaking of Jim Crow South Florida

A World More Concrete: Real Estate and the Remaking of Jim Crow South Florida
ISBN-10
022637842X
ISBN-13
9780226378428
Category
History
Pages
405
Language
English
Published
2016-03-25
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Author
N. D. B. Connolly

Description

Connolly argues that Americans, immigrants, and even indigenous people, between the 1890s and the 1960s, made tremendous investments in racial apartheid, largely in an effort to govern growing cities and to unleash the value of land as real estate. Through a focus on South Florida, the book illustrates how entrepreneurs used land and debates over property rights to negotiate the workings of Jim Crow segregation.

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