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• Counterpoints

  a San Francisco Bay Area Atlas of Displacement & Resistance

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  Counterpoints provides a current assessment of the politics of displacement and resistance in San Francisco and the surrounding Bay Area related racism in housing from renting to home ownership. This volume provides an overview of how neighborhoods…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Freedom to Discriminate

  How Realtors Conspired to Segregate Housing and Divide America

  Slater, Gene, 1949-

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  Gene Slater presents us with a timely work on how the real estate industry influences and shapes housing, neighborhoods, and municipalities across the United States by adhering to redlining practices of segregating property by income level, class,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Garden Neighborhoods of San Francisco

  the Development of Residence Parks, 1905-1924

  Brandi, Richard,

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  Richard Brandi traces the development of residence parks in San Francisco during the early part of the 20th Century. Surrounded in well-manicured park settings, neighborhoods like St. Francis Woods provided the upper classes beautiful and exclusive…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Know Your Price

  Valuing Black Lives and Property in America's Black Cities

  Perry, Andre M.,

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  Senior Fellow at Brookings Metro and a scholar-in-residence at American University. Andre Perry takes us on a tour of six Black-majority cities whose assets and strengths are undervalued. Perry weaves his own personal story and experiences into this…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Housing the City by the Bay

  Tenant Activism, Civil Rights, and Class Politics in San Francisco

  Baranski, John,

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  From the 1906 earthquake to the present, San Francisco has a long and intractable history of public housing. John Baranski takes us through the fraught and fractious path to providing affordable housing in this city where the politics of class and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Race for Profit

  How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership

  Taylor, Keeanga-Yamahtta,

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  Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor provides a powerful work on how the banking system worked hand in hand with the real estate industry for their own profits to undermine and block Blacks from purchasing property. An engaging read that not only teaches us…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Strange Careers of the Jim Crow North

  Segregation and Struggle Outside of the South

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  Brian Purnell, Jeanne Theoharis and Komozi Woodard bring together an anthology of essays that "challenges readers to reimagine their understandings of the “old” Jim Crow by turning their attention away from the South. The Strange Careers of the Jim…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Alien Neighbors, Foreign Friends

  Asian Americans, Housing, and the Transformation of Urban California

  Brooks, Charlotte, 1971-

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  Between the early 1900s and the late 1950s, the attitudes of white Californians toward their Asian American neighbors evolved from outright hostility to relative acceptance. Charlotte Brooks examines this transformation through the lens of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Arsenal of Exclusion & Inclusion

  Armborst, Tobias,

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  Architect, urban designer and educator Tobias Armborst provides in The Arsenal of Exclusion & Inclusion a compendium of the ' human-made tools used by architects, planners, policy-makers, developers, real estate brokers, activists, and other urban…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Color of Law

  a Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America

  Rothstein, Richard,

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  Senior Fellow (emeritus) at the Thurgood Marshall Institute of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, Richard Rothstein demonstrates the complicity of both our government and courts in sanctioning redlining of residential and commercial districts. Case by…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Earth, the City, and the Hidden Narrative of Race

  Anthony, Carl,

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  Local Bay Area architect, planner, and environmental justice advocate, Carl Anthony draws connections between the logics formulated and used to perpetuate slavery, community disinvestment, and environmental exploitation. Anthony contextualizes the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Black Skyscraper

  Architecture and the Perception of Race

  Brown, Adrienne R., 1983-

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  Adrienne Brown presents a magisterial work on the effects of race and racial perception as shown in architecture and urban planning and development. Brown focuses in particular on the skyscraper, its history, symbolism, and how it changed the urban…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Unjust Deeds

  the Restrictive Covenant Cases and the Making of the Civil Rights Movement

  Gonda, Jeffrey D.,

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  Unjust Deeds unearths in depth and detail the pernicious effects that racial restrictive covenants embedded in property deeds had on Black home ownership in post World War II America. This is the story of six Black families who fought to hold on to…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Postwar Struggle for Civil Rights

  African Americans in San Francisco, 1945-1975

  Miller, Paul T.

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  Although World War II brought unparalleled employment opportunities for Blacks in San Francisco, it also brought on increasing racial discrimination in both housing and employment sectors. Employment opportunities were limited to entry level…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• American Babylon

  Race and the Struggle for Postwar Oakland

  Self, Robert O., 1968-

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  Long time scholar of post WW II liberalism and the history of the American state's power in, and over, people's lives, Robert Self makes the case in "American Babylon" that the history of civil rights and black liberation politics in California…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Roots, Race, & Place

  a History of Racially Exclusionary Housing in the San Francisco Bay Area

  Moore, Eli,

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  Director of the Community Power and Policy Partnerships Program Eli Moore, housing research analyst Nicole Montojo, and attorney Nicole Mauri present in "Roots, Race, & Place" (2019) a follow the money account of the pervasive and entrenched racism…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Ingleside Terraces

  San Francisco Racetrack to Residence Park

  LaBounty, Woody

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  Woody LaBounty traces the infamous history of how a San Francisco racetrack was transformed into a residential park, Ingleside Terraces, in 1912. Like other suburban developments built in the United States at the time, Ingleside Terraces was…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Letting Down the Bars

  Race, Space, and Democracy in San Francisco, 1936-1964

  Sullivan, Deirdre L.

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  Deirdre Sullivan looks at San Francisco's history of racism and racial segregation in the thirty years period from 1934 to 1964. How space for housing was determined and allocated. Who had the power, who was powerless, and how the democratic…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• One City or Two?

  Report of the San Francisco Fair Housing Planning Committee for the Racial, Ethnic and Economic Integration of Residential Neighborhoods in San Francisco

  San Francisco (Calif.). Fair Housing Planning Committee

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  The San Francisco Fair Housing Planning Committee's 1973 report on racial, ethnic and economic integration efforts on behalf of residential neighborhoods. The report looks at a city at a crossroads in urban planning and housing.

• Understanding Fair Housing

  United States Commission on Civil Rights

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  This document focuses on the basic right to housing of one's choice and what constitutes fair housing. It covers the legacy of the past, fair housing and the law, equal housing opportunity and individual property rights, race and property value,…Read moreRead more of this annotation