W Edward Orser
Biographic Data
| ID | 302130 |
|---|---|
| NAME | W Edward Orser |
| GIVEN NAMES | W Edward |
| FAMILY NAME | Orser |
| SIGNATURE | ORSER W E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Maryland, Baltimore County |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1972 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Blockbusting
Real estate blockbusting, which was pervasive in many US cities in the post‐World War II period, was the intentional action of a real estate broker to place an African American resident in a previously all‐white neighborhood for the express purpose of the excessive profit to be made by panicking whites into selling at low prices and then charging marked‐up prices to incoming minority residents. The Fair Housing provisions of the Civil Rights Act …
Blockbusting
Blockbusting played a significant role in the massive racial change which transformed many American central cities in the 1950s and 1960s. The 1968 Civil Rights (or Fair Housing) Act specifically listed blockbusting as an illegal practice. Blockbusting in the post‐War II period typically referred to transactions in which white fear of black settlement was used by operatives, termed “blockbusters,” to produce panic sales at prices well below marke…
Blockbusting
Blockbusting played a significant role in the episodes of massive racial change that transformed many American central cities in the 1950s and 1960s. The 1968 Civil Rights (or Fair Housing) Act specifically listed blockbusting as the illegal practice by real estate agents “for profit, to induce or attempt to induce ‘housing sales’ by representations regarding the entry or prospective entry into the neighborhood of a person or persons of a particu…
Blockbusting
Real estate blockbusting, pervasive in many American cities in the post‐World War II period, is the intentional action of a real estate broker to place an African American resident in a previously all‐white neighborhood for the express purpose of the excessive profit to be made by panicking whites into selling low, then in turn charging marked‐up prices to incoming minority residents (Helper 1969). The Civil Rights Act (Fair Housing Act) of 1968 …
Blockbusting
Real estate blockbusting, pervasive in many American cities in the post‐World War II period, is the intentional action of a real estate broker to place an African American resident in a previously all‐white neighborhood for the express purpose of the excessive profit to be made by panicking whites into selling low, then in turn charging marked‐up prices to incoming minority residents (Helper 1969). The Civil Rights Act (Fair Housing Act) of 1968 …
Blockbusting in Baltimore
Blockbusting in Baltimore
Blockbusting in Baltimore
Journal Article Blockbusting in Baltimore: The Edmondson Village Story. By W. Edward Orser. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1994. xiv, 241 pp. $39.95, ISBN 0-8131-1870-0.) Get access Arnold R. Hirsch Arnold R. Hirsch University of New Orleans, New Orleans, Louisiana Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 82, Issue 2, September 1995, Pages 832–833, https://doi.org/10.2…
Secondhand Suburbs
The Contested Terrain of Nineteenth-Century Urban Landscape Design
Searching for a Viable Alternative
Racial Attituds in Wartime
Delegates to a special meeting of the Federal Council of Churches in Columbus Ohio, in March, 1946, adopted a report which committed the Council to work for a non-segregated church in a non-segregated society and called upon its constituent communions to do likewise. The statement represented a new departure, but its timing-coming at the end of the Second World War-was also significant. Although the position of the Federal Council was in advance …
Racial Attituds in Wartime
Delegates to a special meeting of the Federal Council of Churches in Columbus Ohio, in March, 1946, adopted a report which committed the Council to work for a non-segregated church in a non-segregated society and called upon its constituent communions to do likewise. The statement represented a new departure, but its timing-coming at the end of the Second World War-was also significant. Although the position of the Federal Council was in advance …
Searching for a Viable Alternative
The Contested Terrain of Nineteenth-Century Urban Landscape Design
Secondhand Suburbs
Blockbusting in Baltimore
Blockbusting in Baltimore
Journal Article Blockbusting in Baltimore: The Edmondson Village Story. By W. Edward Orser. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1994. xiv, 241 pp. $39.95, ISBN 0-8131-1870-0.) Get access Arnold R. Hirsch Arnold R. Hirsch University of New Orleans, New Orleans, Louisiana Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 82, Issue 2, September 1995, Pages 832–833, https://doi.org/10.2…
Blockbusting in Baltimore
Blockbusting
Real estate blockbusting, pervasive in many American cities in the post‐World War II period, is the intentional action of a real estate broker to place an African American resident in a previously all‐white neighborhood for the express purpose of the excessive profit to be made by panicking whites into selling low, then in turn charging marked‐up prices to incoming minority residents (Helper 1969). The Civil Rights Act (Fair Housing Act) of 1968 …
Blockbusting
Real estate blockbusting, pervasive in many American cities in the post‐World War II period, is the intentional action of a real estate broker to place an African American resident in a previously all‐white neighborhood for the express purpose of the excessive profit to be made by panicking whites into selling low, then in turn charging marked‐up prices to incoming minority residents (Helper 1969). The Civil Rights Act (Fair Housing Act) of 1968 …
Blockbusting
Blockbusting played a significant role in the episodes of massive racial change that transformed many American central cities in the 1950s and 1960s. The 1968 Civil Rights (or Fair Housing) Act specifically listed blockbusting as the illegal practice by real estate agents “for profit, to induce or attempt to induce ‘housing sales’ by representations regarding the entry or prospective entry into the neighborhood of a person or persons of a particu…
Blockbusting
Blockbusting played a significant role in the massive racial change which transformed many American central cities in the 1950s and 1960s. The 1968 Civil Rights (or Fair Housing) Act specifically listed blockbusting as an illegal practice. Blockbusting in the post‐War II period typically referred to transactions in which white fear of black settlement was used by operatives, termed “blockbusters,” to produce panic sales at prices well below marke…
Blockbusting
Real estate blockbusting, which was pervasive in many US cities in the post‐World War II period, was the intentional action of a real estate broker to place an African American resident in a previously all‐white neighborhood for the express purpose of the excessive profit to be made by panicking whites into selling at low prices and then charging marked‐up prices to incoming minority residents. The Fair Housing provisions of the Civil Rights Act …
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