Under Construction: Race and Housing Markets in 21st-Century Urban America

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dc.contributor.advisorElliott, James Ren_US
dc.creatorKorver-Glenn, Elizabethen_US
dc.date.accessioned2017-08-01T18:00:08Zen_US
dc.date.available2017-08-01T18:00:08Zen_US
dc.date.created2017-05en_US
dc.date.issued2017-03-28en_US
dc.date.submittedMay 2017en_US
dc.date.updated2017-08-01T18:00:08Zen_US
dc.description.abstractRacial segregation continues to haunt U.S. cities. But, a full picture of why and how racial segregation persists at such high levels in contemporary urban America is less clear—in part because little is known about the contemporary, everyday operation of the housing market. To enrich understanding of the processes associated with the reproduction of segregation and other housing-related forms of racial inequality, I first conceptualize the housing market as an institution, or the intersection of several overlapping sets of stakeholders, the industries in which they work, and the federal forms and rules that affect their work. Then, I rely on a wide-and-deep methodological approach to collect data, conducting one year of ethnographic research and interviewing 102 housing market professionals and consumers across multiple housing market industries. I also conducted spatial analyses to triangulate across participant observation and respondent narratives. The findings that emerged from this dissertation data collection are organized in three chapters. In each chapter, I describe different aspects of how the contemporary Houston housing market operates and how operations reproduce racial meaning and various forms of racial inequality. Overall, my dissertation demonstrates that the cumulative effects of apparently ‘non-racial’ housing market operations, such as (racially-distinct) social networks, the lax regulatory context of housing development, and the loose arrangement of housing market industries, intersect with several institutional practices to reproduce racial meaning and inequality in everyday housing transactions. I conclude by highlighting the theoretical, methodological, and policy contributions of my work and by offering suggestions for future areas of research.en_US
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dc.identifier.citationKorver-Glenn, Elizabeth. "Under Construction: Race and Housing Markets in 21st-Century Urban America." (2017) Diss., Rice University. <a href="https://hdl.handle.net/1911/96083">https://hdl.handle.net/1911/96083</a>.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1911/96083en_US
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.rightsCopyright is held by the author, unless otherwise indicated. Permission to reuse, publish, or reproduce the work beyond the bounds of fair use or other exemptions to copyright law must be obtained from the copyright holder.en_US
dc.subjectRacial segregationen_US
dc.subjectInequalityen_US
dc.subjectHousing Marketen_US
dc.subjectRacial formationen_US
dc.titleUnder Construction: Race and Housing Markets in 21st-Century Urban Americaen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
dc.type.materialTexten_US
thesis.degree.departmentSociologyen_US
thesis.degree.disciplineSocial Sciencesen_US
thesis.degree.grantorRice Universityen_US
thesis.degree.levelDoctoralen_US
thesis.degree.nameDoctor of Philosophyen_US
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