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Blockbusting

Published in The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology • Nov 27, 2023
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Authors:
W. Edward Orser

Abstract

Real estate blockbusting, which was pervasive in many US cities in the post‐World War II period, was the intentional action of a real estate broker to place an African American resident in a previously all‐white neighborhood for the express purpose of the excessive profit to be made by panicking whi...

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