Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2019
Publication Citation
54 Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review 813 (2019)
Abstract
This Article offers a window into the experiences that inform the neighborhood choices of middle-class and upper-middle-class Blacks. As I suggest below, there are many hidden fences, walling off white neighborhoods and restricting Blacks’ housing choices in de facto ways. These hidden fences exist in the form of the many challenges Blacks face when moving to white neighborhoods. The obstacles to easy, contented lives range from police harassment to anti-integrationist violence that push Blacks into less affluent neighborhoods. Ultimately, this Article demonstrates how race can circumscribe housing choice and social mobility, even in the absence of legal barriers restricting where one can live.
Recommended Citation
Bell, Jeannine, "The Hidden Fences Shaping Resegregation" (2019). Articles by Maurer Faculty. 2859.
https://www.repository.law.indiana.edu/facpub/2859