Journal article
Dividing the City: Race-Restrictive Covenants and the Architecture of Segregation in St. Louis
Journal of urban history, Vol.49(1), pp.160-182
03/26/2021
DOI: 10.1177/0096144221999641
Abstract
Dividing the City uses a newly discovered, parcel-level, record of restrictive covenants (circa 1850-1950) to document the scope, variety, location, timing, dissemination, and impact of racial restrictions in the City of St. Louis. We underscore the important differences, in their use and their impact, between new subdivision restrictions and petition-based restrictive agreements in older neighborhoods. And we establish the importance of these restrictions to both a dramatic increase in residential segregation before 1950 and the maintenance of that segregation-through public and private policies that emulated and adapted these restrictions even after the Supreme Court held them unenforceable-across the ensuing decades.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Dividing the City: Race-Restrictive Covenants and the Architecture of Segregation in St. Louis
- Creators
- Colin Gordon
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Journal of urban history, Vol.49(1), pp.160-182
- Publisher
- SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC
- DOI
- 10.1177/0096144221999641
- ISSN
- 0096-1442
- eISSN
- 1552-6771
- Language
- English
- Electronic publication date
- 03/26/2021
- Academic Unit
- History; Public Policy Center (Archive)
- Record Identifier
- 9984252159202771
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