Freedom to Discriminate: How Realtors Conspired to Segregate Housing and Divide America

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Gene Slater Keith Sellon-Wright

Freedom to Discriminate

How Realtors Conspired to Segregate Housing and Divide America

Gene Slater, Keith Sellon-Wright

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Tantor Audio
07 May 2024

Social discrimination; Offences against the government; Discrimination in employment law; Housing law; Urban & municipal planning

"A landmark history told with narrative skill, Freedom to Discriminate uncovers realtors' definitive role in segregating America and shaping modern conservative thought. His book traces the increasingly aggressive ways realtors justified their practices, how they successfully weaponized the word ""freedom"" for their cause, and how conservative politicians have drawn directly from realtors' rhetoric for the past several decades. Much of this story takes place in California, and Slater demonstrates why one of the very first all-white neighborhoods was in Berkeley, and why the state was the perfect place for Ronald Reagan's political ascension. The hinge point in history is Proposition 14, a largely forgotten but monumentally important 1964 ballot initiative. Created and promoted by California realtors, the proposition sought to uphold housing discrimination permanently in the state's constitution, and a vast majority of Californians voted for it. This vote had explosive consequences--ones that still inform our deepest political divisions today--and a true reckoning with the history of American racism requires a closer look at the events leading up to it. Freedom to Discriminate shatters preconceptions about American segregation, and it connects many seemingly disparate aspects of the nation's history in a novel and galvanizing way."

By: Gene Slater
Read by: Keith Sellon-Wright
Imprint: Tantor Audio
Dimensions: Height: 191mm, Width: 135mm,
ISBN: 9798874699031
Publication Date: 07 May 2024
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Audio
Publisher's Status: Active

"Gene Slater has served as senior advisor on housing for federal, state, and local agencies for over forty years. Slater cofounded and chairs CSG Advisors, which has been one of the nation's leading advisors on affordable housing for decades. His projects have received numerous national awards, and in the aftermath of the financial crisis in 2009 he helped design the program by which the United States Treasury financed homes for 110,000 first-time buyers. He holds degrees from Columbia, MIT, and Stanford. Born and raised in Brooklyn, he now lives in the Bay Area. Keith Sellon-Wright is an audiobook narrator and an actor with more than thirty years of experience in Hollywood. His television roles have included Frasier, Seinfeld, The West Wing, Mad Men, Parks and Recreation, Grey's Anatomy, and Scandal. He also serves as a ""voice of the New York Times,"" narrating selected articles for their daily audio edition."