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Housing Segregation in Suburban America Since 1960: Presidential and Judicial Politics.(Book review)

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From: Presidential Studies Quarterly
Date: 20070301
Author:Kleit, Rachel Garshick

Housing Segregation in Suburban America Since 1960: Presidential and Judicial Politics. By Charles M. Lamb. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005. 302 pp.

In Housing Segregation in Suburban America Since 1960, Charles Lamb opens a window into the early struggle for enforcement and interpretation of the Fair Housing Act of 1968 to explain two key outcomes. First, his detailed political history explains why enforcement of the act has been so notoriously weak. Second, he argues that the legacy of the Nixon administration directly caused the suburbs to remain segregated, ...

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