SOCIOL 2FF3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Blockbusting, Urban Renewal, Jim Crow Laws
7 Apr 2018
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Distinctions didn"t hold the key to social questions that were relevant. Whiteness is more than skin colour - includes privilege. People would come home from wwii wanting to start families but there was no housing. Turned to a new housing program - fed"l housing administration - that racialized housing. Provided the backing of loans so they could buy houses. The american dream had a new name: suburbia. Levittown was an area that had 17,000 houses for cheap prices. Developers hadn"t decided if negroes could live there. Lower real estate value if there was one or two non-white individuals. An integrated neighbourhood is seen as unstable and a great risk. A white neighbourhood built a wall btwn their neighbourhood and the black neighbourhood b/c they couldn"t get their fha mortgages approved. Constructed whiteness - being a citizen and being a christian now meant living in the suburbs. Utopia of middle-class white people who pretended they didn"t live in a multicultural world.
