Chicago became a major hub for new migrants and their families. In the decades following the end of slavery, the threats of the Jim Crow South prompted a mass migration of African-Americans northward. In Beryl Satter’s detailed history of contract buying in the city of Chicago, she examines the layers underlying the city’s development and sustainment of ghettos filled beyond capacity accompanying the intentional homogeneity of all-white neighborhoods. Unfortunately, the practice may be making a comeback in Detroit. Beryl Satter’s Family Properties: How the Struggle Over Race and Real Estate Transformed Chicago and Urban America, describes a key historical case of mid-century real estate practices that led to entrenched segregation and racial wealth disparities: contract buying. Long after the explicit use of racist terms in laws, policies with important racial impacts can linger in past practices that marginalize minority communities.
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