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A World More Concrete: Real Estate and the Remaking of Jim Crow South Florida by N.D.B. Connolly
informative
fast-paced
3.5
Nathan Connolly explores the more durable world that held and harden under the feet of marchers and rioters as Jim Crown died and segregated. The point of the book is to see the shared assumptions between how real estate and white supremacy nurtured in their subjects, regardless of skin colour or class. He focuses on the political and commercial transactions that inspired events like concrete parks.
"Order meant, among other things, protecting white commercial interests under the banners of capitalism, democracy, and modernity."
Connolly argues that Americans, immigrants and indigenous made investments in racial apartheid that helped govern growing cities and unleash the value of land as real estate. He says Black and White landlords worked together to bind real estate to structural racism and white supremacy to political power.
Overall it was a fascinating book.
"Order meant, among other things, protecting white commercial interests under the banners of capitalism, democracy, and modernity."
Connolly argues that Americans, immigrants and indigenous made investments in racial apartheid that helped govern growing cities and unleash the value of land as real estate. He says Black and White landlords worked together to bind real estate to structural racism and white supremacy to political power.
Overall it was a fascinating book.