"Race Brokers: Housing Markets and Segregation in 21st Century Urban America" examines how racial inequality is intentionally reproduced in the housing market by a wide range of actors. Learn more and order a copy of the book here.
About "Race Brokers"
In "Race Brokers," Elizabeth Korver-Glenn examines how housing market professionals — including housing developers, real estate agents, mortgage lenders, and appraisers — construct contemporary urban housing markets in ways that contribute to neighborhood inequality and racial segregation. Drawing on extensive ethnographic and interview data collected in Houston, Texas, Korver-Glenn shows how these professionals, especially those who are White, use racist tools to build a fundamentally unequal housing market and are even encouraged to apply racist ideas to market activity and interactions. Korver-Glenn further tracks how professionals broker racism across the entirety of the housing exchange process — from the home's construction, to real estate brokerage, mortgage lending, home appraisals, and the home sale closing.
About Elizabeth Korver-Glenn
Elizabeth Korver-Glenn is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of New Mexico. Her award-winning research has been published in American Sociological Review, Social Problems, Social Currents, Sociology of Race and Ethnicity, and City & Community, among other peer-reviewed outlets. Her work has also been featured in national news outlets, including The Washington Post.
About Urban Reads
The Kinder Institute's Urban Reads series showcases recently published works on pressing urban issues by local and national authors.
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