| The Culture of Property: Race, Class, and Housing Landscapes in Atlanta, 1880-1950 Subjects: Housing -- Georgia -- Atlanta -- History; Home ownership -- Social aspects -- Georgia -- Atlanta -- History; Homeowners -- Georgia -- Atlanta -- Social conditions; Social classes -- Georgia -- Atlanta -- History; Segregation -- Georgia -- Atlanta -- Histo; This history of the idea of "neighborhood" in a major American city examines the transition of Atlanta, Georgia, from a place little concerned with residential segregation, tasteful surroundings, and property control to one marked by extreme concentrations of poverty and racial and class exclusion. Using Atlanta as a lens to view the wider nation, LeeAnn Lands shows how assumptions about race and class have coalesced with attitudes toward residential landscape aesthetics and home ownership to shape public policies that promote and protect white privilege. LEEANN B. LANDS is a professor of history at Kennesaw State University. She is the author of The Culture of Property: Race, Class, and Housing Landscapes in Atlanta, 1880-1950 (Georgia). |