| Book Review | The Michigan Historical Review, 34.1

You have not been recognized as a subscriber to the Michigan Historical Review online. About 167 words from this article are provided below; about 302 words remain.

If you are a subscriber to the Michigan Historical Review, you may:: • login here if you have already registered for online access.; • Or if you're already logged in register your subscription.
• Set up your online account for the first time.
If you are not a subscriber to the Michigan Historical Review, you can:: • subscribe here.
• Purchase a research pass to gain two hour access to the entire History Cooperative web site. You will have full access to current issues of the Michigan Historical Review.
Instititutions can:: • Subscribe to the journal and receive print and electronic issues.
• Activate your existing subscription so that we recognize your IP number ranges.

| Book Review | The Michigan Historical Review, 34.1 | The History Cooperative

Book Reviews

David M. P. Freund. Colored Property: State Policy and White Racial Politics in Suburban America. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007. Pp. 496. Bibliography. Drawings. Index. Maps. Notes. Photographs. Cloth, $35.00.

Charging a title with references to the histories of race and wealth will raise the expectations of any reader. David Freund does not avoid the critical appraisal of his audience. Colored Property addresses one of the most important topics of recent American history—the political and economic facets of race relations during the past sixty years. His concern is the analysis of the political rhetoric of color blindness and how it differed from the racialist vocabulary of biological superiority that shaped the early decades of the twentieth century. Freund constructs his premise in two sections. The first offers a discussion of the ways federal policies redefined millions of local and state housing markets. The second part of the analysis moves into an examination of these forces in the metropolitan region of Detroit, Michigan.

. . .

There are about 302 more words in this article. Please log in (or, if you are not yet an authorized user, please go to the User Setup page) to gain full access rights. Or if you're already logged in register your subscription.