The One-Way Street of Integration: Fair Housing and the Pursuit of Racial Justice in American Cities - Softcover

Goetz, Edward G.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1501748475 ISBN 13: 9781501748479

Publisher: Cornell University Press, 2020

Synopsis

The One-Way Street of Integration examines two contrasting housing policy approaches to achieving racial justice. Integration initiatives and community development efforts have been for decades contrasting means of achieving racial equity through housing policy. Goetz traces the tensions involved in housing integration and policy to show why he doesn't see the solution to racial injustice as the government moving poor and nonwhite people out of their communities.

The One-Way Street of Integration critiques fair housing integration policies for targeting settlement patterns while ignoring underlying racism and issues of economic and political power. Goetz challenges liberal orthodoxy, determining that the standard efforts toward integration are unlikely to lead to racial equity or racial justice in American cities. In fact, in this pursuit it is the community development movement rather that has the greatest potential for connecting to social change and social justice efforts.

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About the Author

Edward G. Goetz is Professor of Urban and Regional Planning and Director of the Center for Urban and Regional Affairs at the University of Minnesota. He has published widely, including, most recently, New Deal Ruins.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Publication date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1501748475
• ISBN 13: 9781501748479
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 228