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Title Saving the neighborhood : racially restrictive covenants, law, and social norms / Richard R.W. Brooks, Carol M. Rose.

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 Law Library Course Reserves  KF 662 .B76 2013    CHECKED IN
Description 294 pages ; 24 cm
text txt rdacontent
unmediated n rdamedia
volume nc rdacarrier
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction : recalling racialized property -- Before covenants -- The big guns silenced : how racial convenants overcame major objections from constitutional law, property law, and corporations law -- Pushing down the ghosts : covenant development and unseen legal influences -- The calculus of covenants -- The emergence of the norm breakers -- The great dilemma for legal norms : Shelley and state action -- After Shelley : reactions, evasions, substitutions -- Changing games in the twilight of covenants : signals, tipping points, and quotas -- Conclusion : covenants' legacy.
Subject Real covenants -- United States.
Discrimination in housing -- Law and legislation -- United States.
Added Author Rose, Carol M., 1940-
ISBN 9780674072541
0674072545
OCLC # 808990391
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