Reviewed by Charlotte Brooks | Reviews | Journal of American Ethnic History, 27.3

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*Colored Property: State Policy and White Racial Politics in Suburban America.* By David M. P. Freund. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007. xii + 514 pp. Maps, photos, notes, and index. $35.00 (cloth).
In this book, David M. P. Freund analyzes the racial impact of twentieth-century federal housing policies and programs on national urban and suburban patterns, as well as on the attitudes of white residents of metropolitan Detroit. In one sense, this is already well-covered ground, but Freund contends that most urban scholars mistakenly depict white Americans' racial beliefs as static over time and characterizes their changing rhetoric about race during and after World War II as simply disingenuous. In contrast, Freund poses the compelling question: "If most northern whites had disavowed racism and supported the principle of racial equality, why did so many continue to oppose residential integration?" (p. 5).	1
To answer this question, Freund begins in the 1910s, when zoning advocates from the new profession of urban planning created "a land-use science that simply assumed the legitimacy and relevance of racial science" (p. 58). They then forged political partnerships with realtors and government officials in an attempt to win recognition and authority for their field. By the 1930s, new federal programs—which largely excluded people of color—enforced and thus institutionalized earlier theories of segregation as "a market imperative" (p. 33).	. . .

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