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The One-Way Street of Integration
Fair Housing and the Pursuit of Racial Justice in American Cities
Edward G. Goetz (Author)
9781501707599
Hardback, published 15 March 2018
228 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 2.2 cm, 0.454 kg
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. Should stimulate debate. Professor Goetz's sweeping indictment of the well-intentioned effort to advance racial integration deserves thoughtful consideration; it should inspire wide-ranging debate. Goetz has presented compelling arguments for his position on locating subsidized housing, favoring the community development movement. 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.
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.
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