Residence and Race: Final and Comprehensive Report to the Commission on Race and Housing

Davis McEntire’s Residence and Race offers a comprehensive examination of one of the most entrenched forms of discrimination in the United States: restrictions on where racial and ethnic minorities could live. Drawing on vivid case studies—from an African American physician barred from buying near his hospital in Iowa to a decorated Korean American army officer turned away from a suburban development in California—the book situates individual injustices within a national pattern. McEntire d...