GGR327H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Faubourg Marigny, White Supremacy, Walkability
11 Feb 2016
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Suburbanization massive expansion of middle class through low-interest home (cid:2) (cid:2) loans, preferential treatment for white heterosexual men o. Transfer of wealth out of inner cities to suburban areas o. Despite formal prohibitions on restrictive housing covenants in u. s. (shelley v. o. Kraemer, 1948) and canada (noble v. alley, 1950), race continues to inform housing policy and practice o. Racial dividend how it benefitted white people over people of colour. Lower-class white people are able to grow their assets more than upper-class o black people. Because liberal democracy generally secures the conditions for wealth to reproduce and grow itself, we continue to live with the legacy of structurally racist housing practices in the 1940s and 1950s. Contemporary gentrification with race and class in suburbanization. Nero who benefitted from the wealth transfer. Who is part of the life of a community. But gentrification is also enabled and propelled by cultural discourses that orient.
