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Record Nr.

UNINA9910454101803321

Autore

Helper Rose

Titolo

Racial policies and practices of real estate brokers [[electronic resource] /] / by Rose Helper

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, [1969]

ISBN

0-8166-6873-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (404 p.)

Disciplina

301.5/4

Soggetti

Discrimination in housing - Illinois - Chicago

African Americans - Housing

Real estate business - Illinois - Chicago

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 368-380) and index.

Nota di contenuto

TABLE OF CONTENTS; I: THE PROBLEM IN NATIONAL PERSPECTIVE; II: PURPOSE AND METHOD OF THE STUDY; III: RACIAL POLICIES AND PRACTICES; IV: THE BROKER'S CONCEPTION OF HIS RACIAL POLICIES AND PRACTICES, PART I; V: THE BROKER'S CONCEPTION OF HIS RACIAL POLICIES AND PRACTICES, PART II; VI: OTHER FACTORS AFFECTING RACIAL POLICIES AND PRACTICES; VII: THE REAL ESTATE BOARD, PART I; VIII: THE REAL ESTATE BOARD, PART II; IX: THE RELATION OF IDEOLOGY AND OF OTHER FACTORS TO PRACTICE; X: CURRENT PRACTICES OF EXCLUSION; APPENDIX A. INTERVIEW SCHEDULE

APPENDIX B. CRITERIA TO DETERMINE DIRECTION OF COMPONENTS 1-8APPENDIX C. TABLES 1-47; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

Racial Policies and Practices of Real Estate Brokers was first published in 1969. Dr. Helper, a sociologist, reports on a study which takes a close look at one of the basic problems underlying racial discrimination in housing -- the policies and practices of real estate brokers. She has attempted to find out how real estate men themselves regard their racial practices and to analyze the ideology on which their practices are based. The core of the study is a series of interviews conducted in 1955-1956 with 121 real estate brokers located in three different sections of Chicago and a less extensi