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hctiB G: Desegregation #3 | The G Bitch Spot

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hctiB G: Desegregation #3

[note--refers to page] 47———as housing discrimination continued——— [Rose] Helper,Racial Policies [and Practices of Real Estate Brokers (Minneapolis: University of Minnesoata Press, 1969)]; [Douglas] Massey and [Nancy] Denton, American Apartheid [Cambridge, MA: Harvard Unversity Press, 1993]; and Gregory Squires, “The Indelible Color Line: The Persistence of Housing Segregation,” American Prospect 10, no. 42 (January 1999). Squires, a professor at the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee, is considered a leading expert in the field of housing discrimination. In his American Prospectarticle, Squires writes, “Though overt racism has diminished greatly over the last 30 years, most American cities remain deeply segregated. A host of other problems, such as the lack of both public services and private enterprise in inner-city black neighborhoods, have