![]() ![]() 1944-1968 : Blacks next door - Crossing Fulton Avenue - Covenants crumble - Fighting anti-Semitism - A brotherhood of profit - Ordinary lives - Uneasy allies - From dream to nightmare - pt. ![]() 1910-1944 : a White man's city - 1910 - Good government - Race science - Segregation by collusion - Mapping bigotry - The good war - pt. Includes bibliographical references and index Pietila's engrossing story is an eye-opening journey into city blocks and neighborhoods, shady practices, and ruthless promoters. The events are real, and so are the heroes and villains. This all-American tale is told through the prism of Baltimore, from its early suburbanization in the 1880s to the consequences of "white flight" after World War II, and into the first decade of the twenty-first century. ![]() He shows how racism and antisemitism shaped who could live where in Baltimore, eventually consigning working-class Black people to disintegrating neighborhoods in the inner city. Eugenics, racial thinking, and white supremacist attitudes influenced even the federal government's actions toward housing in the 20th century, dooming American cities to ghettoization. A former journalist, Antero Pietila delves into the history of Baltimore’s battles over housing and race since the 1880s. Antero Pietila shows how continued discrimination practices toward African Americans and Jews have shaped the cities in which we now live. Baltimore is the setting for (and typifies) one of the most penetrating examinations of bigotry and residential segregation ever published in the United States. ![]()
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