Brooks, Richard Rexford Wayne.
Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2013.
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Notes:

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-282) and index.
• Introduction : recalling racialized property — Before covenants — The big guns silenced : how racial convenants overcame major objections from constitutional law, property law, and corporations law — Pushing down the ghosts : covenant development and unseen legal influences — The calculus of covenants — The emergence of the norm breakers — The great dilemma for legal norms : Shelley and state action — After Shelley : reactions, evasions, substitutions — Changing games in the twilight of covenants : signals, tipping points, and quotas — Conclusion : covenants’ legacy.

Subjects:

• Real covenants — United States.
• Discrimination in housing — Law and legislation — United States.

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