The One-Way Street of Integration: Fair Housing and the Pursuit of Racial Justice in American Cities

by Edward G. Goetz

Overview

The One-Way Street of Integration examines two contrasting housing policy approaches to achieving racial justice. Integration initiatives and community development efforts have been for decades contrasting means of achieving racial equity through housing policy. Goetz traces the tensions involved in housing integration and policy to show why he doesn't see the solution to racial injustice as the government moving poor and nonwhite people out of their communities.

The One-Way Street of Integration critiques fair housing integration policies for targeting settlement patterns while ignoring underlying racism and issues of economic and political power. Goetz challenges liberal orthodoxy, determining that the standard efforts toward integration are unlikely to lead to racial equity or racial justice in American cities. In fact, in this pursuit it is the community development movement rather that has the greatest potential for connecting to social change and social justice efforts.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781501716690
Publisher:	Cornell University Press
Publication date:	03/15/2018
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	228
File size:	1 MB
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Edward G. Goetz is Professor of Urban and Regional Planning and Director of the Center for Urban and Regional Affairs at the University of Minnesota. He has published widely, including, most recently, New Deal Ruins.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Alternative Approaches to RegionalEquity and Racial Justice
1. The Integration Imperative
2. Affirmatively Furthering Community Development
3. The "Hollow Prospect" of Integration
4. The Three Stations of Fair Housing Spatial Strategy
5. New Issues, Unresolved Questions, and the Widening Debate
Conclusion: Everyone Deserves to Live in anOpportunity Neighborhood

What People are Saying About This

Derek Hyra

The One-Way Street of Integration investigates the key conflicts within the liberal Left. As Edward G. Goetz shows, these unresolved differences prevent stronger advocacy for the alleviation of inequalities pervasive throughout metropolitan America. This is a must read for twenty-first-century urban and metropolitan scholars, policy makers, and students interested in pursuing racial and economic equity.

Henry Cisneros

The One-Way Street of Integration is an important book. Edward G. Goetz’s explanations of the conflicts between community development and fair housing are clear, comprehensive, and powerful. This book is a necessary read, especially for Goetz’s wise and achievable prescriptions for resolution of those conflicts.

Susan S. Fainstein

Edward G. Goetz uses extensive evidence to support the community building position. This is an important book because The One-Way Street of Integration shows why dogmatic support for racial integration may cut against racial justice.

Michael Leo Owens

The One-Way Street of Integration justly challenges the integrationist project of moving people of color to "opportunity." Goetz makes us question why many diminish and even disrupt promising efforts to help people of color develop communities where they are. This book is a major intellectual investment for all of us who want better institutions and initiatives for achieving and sustaining racial equity in the metropolis.

Editorial Reviews

A courageous work in that Goetz confronts a difficult debate head on. Goetz gives clear guidance about what he believes to be the way forward.

Journal of Planning Education and Research

Should stimulate debate.

Choice

Professor Goetz's sweeping indictment of the well-intentioned effort to advance racial integration deserves thoughtful consideration; it should inspire wide-ranging debate.

The Metropole

Goetz has presented compelling arguments for his position on locating subsidized housing, favoring the community development movement.

Journal of Urban Affairs

Goetz has written an important and timely book. Beyond its substantial contribution to the scholarly literature on American urban policy, infinitely more important is its potential to aid in the ongoing struggle against racial injustice and American white supremacy—something needed now perhaps more than ever.

Shelterforce

A courageous work in that Goetz confronts a difficult debate head on. Goetz gives clear guidance about what he believes to be the way forward.

-- "Journal of Planning Education and Research"

Goetz has presented compelling arguments for his position on locating subsidized housing, favoring the community development movement.

-- "Journal of Urban Affairs"

Goetz has written an important and timely book. Beyond its substantial contribution to the scholarly literature on American urban policy, infinitely more important is its potential to aid in the ongoing struggle against racial injustice and American white supremacy--something needed now perhaps more than ever.

-- "Shelterforce"

Professor Goetz's sweeping indictment of the well-intentioned effort to advance racial integration deserves thoughtful consideration; it should inspire wide-ranging debate.

-- "The Metropole"

Should stimulate debate.

-- "Choice"

From the Publisher

"The One-Way Street of Integration justly challenges the integrationist project of moving people of color to "opportunity." Goetz makes us question why many diminish and even disrupt promising efforts to help people of color develop communities where they are. This book is a major intellectual investment for all of us who want better institutions and initiatives for achieving and sustaining racial equity in the metropolis."

Michael Leo Owens

"The One-Way Street of Integration investigates the key conflicts within the liberal Left. As Edward G. Goetz shows, these unresolved differences prevent stronger advocacy for the alleviation of inequalities pervasive throughout metropolitan America. This is a must read for twenty-first-century urban and metropolitan scholars, policy makers, and students interested in pursuing racial and economic equity."

Derek Hyra

"The One-Way Street of Integration is an important book. Edward G. Goetz’s explanations of the conflicts between community development and fair housing are clear, comprehensive, and powerful. This book is a necessary read, especially for Goetz’s wise and achievable prescriptions for resolution of those conflicts."

Henry Cisneros

"Edward G. Goetz uses extensive evidence to support the community building position. This is an important book because The One-Way Street of Integration shows why dogmatic support for racial integration may cut against racial justice."

Susan S. Fainstein