Not in My Neighborhood: How Bigotry Shaped a Great American City

After an adverse Supreme Court ruling, city leaders turned to racial covenants to keep neighborhoods white, although "redlining" conducted by the Home Owners Loan Corporation and the Federal Housing Administration also proved useful. After a brief look at Baltimore's population explosion during World War II, when both lowerclass whites and blacks came in for local opprobrium, the book details the practice of blockbusting: the use of race-based concerns by realtors to buy properties at low prices from whites and sell those properties at high prices to blacks.