Saving the neighborhood : racially restrictive covenants, law, and social norms / Richard R. W. Brooks, Carol M. Rose.

Author: Brooks, Richard Rexford Wayne.

Imprint:Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2013.

Description294 pages ; 24 cm

Note:Before covenants -- The big guns silenced : how racial covenants overcame major objections from constitutional law, property law, and corporations law -- Pushing down the ghosts : covenant development and unseen legal influences -- The calculus of covenants -- The emergence of the norm breakers -- The great dilemma for legal norms : Shelley and state action -- After Shelley : reactions, evasions, substitutions -- Changing games in the twilight of covenants : signals, tipping points, and quotas.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.

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