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Lectures in History

The Promise of Suburbia

Lectures in History

C-SPAN

History, Politics, News

4.1696 Ratings

🗓️ 13 June 2021

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Summary

Johns Hopkins University professor Nathan Connolly teaches a class about the “promise of suburbia” after the civil rights movement. He explores the role of zoning, eminent domain, and property rights in the making of racial housing categories. He also explains how these tools were often used by local governments to impede desegregation of neighborhoods. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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This is C-SPAN's Lectures in History podcast.

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This week, Suburbia after the Civil Rights Movement.

1:01.1

John Hopkins University professor Nathan Connolly explores the role of zoning, eminent domain, and property rights in the making of racial housing categories.

1:10.3

He also explains how these tools were often used by local governments to stop neighborhood desegregation.

1:16.6

I wanted to try to find a way to think about suburbia as a hinge point in the semester.

1:23.6

We've been having discussions now for about six weeks on a variety of different themes

1:27.7

and issues, dealing with black political officials, the compounded identities that people

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have when race, class, gender, and sexuality overlap and intersect. We spent a fair amount

1:40.9

of time discussing civil rights symbolism, individuals who Individuals who represent something to the movement.

1:47.0

And that theme of symbolism is going to come up again as it concerns housing and citizenship as represented through real estate.

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