Health Sciences 1002A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Blockbusting, White Flight
3 Mar 2016
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Race: the power of an illusion, episode 3: the house you live in (california newsreel) Policies also led to houses on the suburbs being greater in value and where only whites could aford them, where houses for blacks were merely rented and depreciated in value. John powell says whiteness is constructed, meaning that the idea of whiteness has been established or created. He describes whiteness, in the past, as being a ciizen and a chrisian, but now he describes whiteness as living in the suburbs. Block-busing is where real estate agents preyed on the racial fears on white homeowners. Real estate agents would inimidate white homeowners by saying things like black people are moving in next door. I could sell your house for you. whites would run with the money. Real estate agents would persuade white homeowners to sell their homes for less than market value to the.
