| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 107.4

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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Stephen Grant Meyer. As Long as They Don't Move Next Door: Segregation and Racial Conflict in American Neighborhoods. Lanham, Md.: Rowland and Littlefield. 2000. Pp. x, 344. $29.95.

This vigorous study asserts the centrality of home and neighborhood to the successes and failures of race relations in the U.S. It regards opposition to open housing as a continuing feature of white racism in the twentieth century and as remarkably successful in the face of egalitarian state policies in the century's latter half. Stephen Grant Meyer sets out to revise Charles Abrams's classic study of housing discrimination, Forbidden Neighbors: A Study of Prejudice in Housing (1955). He regards Abrams's emphases on the roles of government and industry in promoting and continuing segregation as onesided. By emphasizing remediable institutional factors, Meyer argues, Abrams slighted "deep-seated racial prejudice" (p. viii) among the mass of whites as a critical factor structuring housing patterns. Moreover, this pattern of prejudice applied in the urban North as well as in the South, according to Meyer, and the history of residential segregation therefore opens opportunities to write a civil rights history that is national in scope. . . .

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