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Bibliography/Further Reading

For those interested in further exploring the topics of Redlining and/or Urban Renewal, here is short list of resources:

Academic Sources

  • Lisa Fine, The Story of REO Joe: Work, Kin, and Community in Autotown, USA Temple University Press, 2004.
  • Thomas Sugrue, The Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Post-War Detroit Princeton University Press, 1996 and 2005 and 2014.
  • John Bauman, Roger Biles, and Kristin Szylvian, editors, From Tenements to the Taylor Homes: In Search of an Urban Housing Policy in Twentieth-Century America Penn State University Press, 2000.
  • Joe T. Darden, "Black Residential Segregation Since the 1948 Shelley V. Kraemer Decision," Journal of Black Studies 25:6 (1995): 680-691.
  • Derek S. Hyra, "Conceptualizing the New Urban Renewal: Comparing the Past to the Present," Urban Affairs Review 48:4 (2012): 498-527.
  • Andrew R. Highsmith, "Demolition Means Progress: Urban Renewal, Local Politics, and State-Sanctioned Ghetto Formation in Flint, Michigan," Journal of Urban History 35:3 (2009): 348-368.
  • Sidney Fine, "Michigan and Housing Discrimination, 1949-1968," Michigan Historical Review 23:2 (1997): 81-114.
  • Douglas K. Meyer, "The Changing Negro Residential Patterns in Lansing, Michigan, 1850-1969," MSU PhD Thesis, 1970.
  • Homer Hawkins, "Knowledge of the Social and Emotional Implications of Urban Renewal and the Utility of this Knowledge to the Practice of Social Work," MSU PhD Thesis, 1971.
  • Rose Toomer Brunson, "A Study of the Migrant Negro Population in Lansing, Michigan, During and Since World War II," MSU Master of Social Work Thesis, 1955.

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