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Baltimore is the setting for (and typifies) one of the most penetrating examinations of bigotry and residential segregation ever published in the United States. Antero Pietila shows how continued discrimination practices toward African Americans and Jews have shaped the cities in which we now live. Eugenics, racial thinking, and white supremacist attitudes influenced even the federal government's actions toward housing in the 20th century, dooming American cities to ghettoization. This all-American tale is told through the prism of Baltimore, from its early suburbanization in the 1880s to the consequences of "white flight" after World War II, and into the first decade of the twenty-first century. The events are real, and so are the heroes and villains. Mr. Pietila's engrossing story is an eye-opening journey into city blocks and neighborhoods, shady practices, and ruthless promoters.
- Sales Rank: #55153 in Books
- Published on: 2010-03-16
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.41" h x 1.14" w x 6.43" l, 1.38 pounds
- Binding: Hardcover
- 336 pages
Review
A sharply critical, exhaustively researched, and absolutely invaluable analysis, Not In My Neighborhood is the most important kind of history book-the history that must be studied so that its mistakes are not repeated (and so that solutions to difficult problems can be worked upon for the future)! Highly recommended. (Midwest Book Review)
...Spellbinding....The scope of Pietila's research over the past 130 years is dazzling (Jason Policastro Baltimore Brew)
With its sensitive subject, this groundbreaking book is a monumental effort.....Pietila hooks readers with anecdotes and arresting details. (Diane Scharper Baltimore Sun)
From suburbanization in the late 19th century to white flight after WWII and, more recently, the targeting of minorities with predatory sub-prime lending, the picture of Baltimore, once again, isn't pretty. (Steven Levingston The Review of Higher Education)
Not In My Neighborhood: How Bigotry Shaped A Great American City offers a powerful survey of a Baltimore issue that shaped a city's psyche when discrimination policies toward blacks and Jews shaped a world....Eye-opening and recommended for any college-level social issues collection. (Midwest Book Review, May 2010)
Antero Pietila's sweeping and detailed portrait of Baltimore's 20th-century blockbusters is a must-read for anyone who wants to understand how and why the city came to look the way it does today. Morris Goldseker, the mighty Jack Pollack, “Little Willie” Adams, James Rouse, Joseph Meyerhoff, and even civil rights legends such as Juanita Mitchell all played their part―and profited from―Baltimore's racially rigged housing business. Clearly written, fast-paced, and filled with telling anecdotes, Not in My Neighborhood brings these players to vivid life, even if it merely nods to some of the larger, more impersonal forces that gave them their opportunities. (Baltimore City Paper, December 2010)
Former Baltimore Sun reporter Pietila, who covered Baltimore neighborhoods and politics for 35 years, has produced an engrossing chronicle that emphasizes the links between racism, real estate practices, and urban politics. Indeed, the author argues they have been inseparable in Baltimore―and the nation. Pietila suggests that federal housing programs (1930s-60s) transformed the eugenics movement into national policy, and he significantly places realtors and developers at the very center of Baltimore politics. Most of the narrative focuses on the period 1910-68, although the author traces racial and real estate patterns back to the 1880s. The third section covers the 1960s and early 1970s....White versus black racism and black and white anti-Semitism are the main themes here, but Pietila's...account reveals class and religion added to already complex tensions. For instance, some Jewish developers would not rent or sell to Jewish families. Newspapers and personal interviews provide some colorful details. Secondary scholarship connects the Baltimore example to the national struggle over access to decent housing, driven by optimism, fear, and sometimes violence. Summing Up: Recommended. (CHOICE)
Not in My Neighborhood offers a lively, informative portrayal of how real estated practices throughout the twentieth century contributed to the segregated cities we see today. In a brief epilogue, the author voices optimism that increasing demographic diversity in the United States will lead to a more integrated future. (Journal Of Planning Education And Research 2011-01-01)
About the Author
Antero Pietila spent thirty-five years as a reporter with the Baltimore Sun, most of it covering the city's neighborhoods, politics, and government. A native of Finland, he became a student of racial change during his first visit to the United States in 1964. He lives in Baltimore.
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26 of 28 people found the following review helpful.
Good reading but doesn't live up to all its potential
By Tally
As a Baltimore resident with a keen interest in the city's history I bought the book to see what the author had to say about an ugly period in the city's history. The transformation from a predominately white to a predominately black city occurred during several decades between 1950 and 1980 and had profound effects on the city's character and well-being.
Pietila writes a good account of why Baltimore flipped from being a white city to a black city and how this change was fueled by the ugly specter of racism and blockbusting - brutal tactics employed by often ethically challenged realtors to scare white homeowners in selling out at rock bottom prices and flipping the houses to black buyers at much higher prices.
I enjoyed the history of the racial changes in the various neighborhoods, starting back in 1910 when the first white homeowner sold to a black buyer in an area outside the accepted black ghettos. I won't get into more details about the content of the book as that's been written by other reviewers but I will add a few of my observations that may or may not be relevant, depending on what you are looking for out of the book.
1. Pietila refers to several of the early country estates surrounding the city as "plantations," such as Homewood "plantation." These were never plantations in the sense of large Southern agricultural based, intensively farmed, plantations, but simply country pleasure estates owned by the city elite who may have owned black servants. Perhaps this is nitpicking but the implication when using the word "plantation" is quite strong and should be carefully used.
2. I would have enjoyed more direct interviews with residents of the neighborhoods that flipped from white to black, from the white sellers to black buyers. Most of the book describes the changes and the key players, usually realtors, but interview accounts with the normal everyday residents and their story of why they sold/moved/bought would have made for a more compelling historical account. Pietila does include a few brief interviews but more would have been to the book's benefit.
3. The book talks at great length why the racial changes happened in key areas of Baltimore. I would have also been interested to read why other key areas didn't have a racial change. Areas of Baltimore that are still predominately white today, such as Hampden, Hamilton, Lauraville, Canton etc, never saw large scale black migration into the neighborhoods. Why? Why did black homeowners migrate into the neighborhoods of northwest Baltimore but not (in the same numbers) into the relatively similar neighborhoods of northeast Baltimore? It's interesting to note that affluent Jewish neighborhoods of the 1930s-1950s, such as Ashburton, easily flipped from white to black, but when a handful of black buyers started moving into Baltimore's prestigious Guilford neighborhood in the late 1960s and 1970s, the white, mostly Christian, residents didn't panic and move, but stayed and held their ground and Guilford remains a heavily white area even as adjoining neighborhoods to the east rapidly became not only black but very poor and brought with it a host of crime problems. What would be the reasons for Guilford's stability compared to Ashburton's failure to successfully integrate?
4. When covering the racial changes of the post WWII years, the book heavily subscribes to the racial fears of original white homeowners, which was real, but it doesn't underscore enough that one of the main reasons white homeowners moved was that the growth of the suburbs opened up the possibility of affordable single-family housing, which was preferable over a cramped rowhouse in an older Baltimore neighborhood. Racism is a very real factor for Baltimore's demographic changes after WWII, but it was only one factor alongside others which include changing popularity of housing types (rowhouse versus single family), age of housing (brand new, maintenance free houses versus older houses with increasing wear and tear). Last of all, not only did Baltimore experience a racial change it also experienced a socio-economic change as the black middle class followed the whites into the suburbs, leaving behind a predominately poor population. Why did middle class blacks, once they had finally gained majority control of Baltimore's politics after centuries of oppression, abandon the city as well? A greater recognition of the broader picture would have made for a better book.
All in all, I enjoyed reading Not in my Backyard, although I will say that an earlier book on blockbusting in Edmondson Village is more in-depth and valuable in understanding individual motivations for moving/selling, although the author of the latter book had the advantage of focusing on one neighborhood while Pietilo is covering the entire city. Not in my Backyard is still a good read for anyone interested in why Baltimore changed from white to black.
31 of 37 people found the following review helpful.
Great history of Baltimore housing
By K. Apperson
Antero Pietila has written one of the best history books on the city of Baltimore. His attention to detail on incidents, people and the struggles of the past that have shaped the current city is remarkable. Once I picked the book up, I could not put it down. He covers many of the famous neighborhoods of Baltimore and describes how segregation shaped the city. He explains the migration from white to jewish to black in many neighborhoods and how exploitation created the slums in Baltimore. I highly recommend the book to any one who is interested in our local and national history.
13 of 14 people found the following review helpful.
Great research, poorly written
By Jessieoppi
I just finished Not in My Neighborhood, and while I was impressed with the depth of research and fact checking that went into this book, I found Pietila's writing to be of such poor quality that the book was at times hard to follow. Long meandering paragraphs lacked topic sentences, transitions or clear direction. New historical figures were introduced haphazardly without sufficient introduction as to why or how they related to events in the book. For example a chapter would start with a long history of Spiro Agnew and then a new paragraph would start with something like "Dale Anderson grew up in Southern Illinois." Unless you were already familiar with Dale Anderson and his role as a Baltimore County councilman you were at a loss as to why Pietila had suddenly switched from writing about Agnew to someone growing up in Illinois. It wasn't until the end of the chapter that Pietila compared and contrasted the two men's roles in Baltimore County that the introduction of Anderson made any sense. At the risk of sounding like a nit-picky crazy person, some sentences were so poorly written that I actual read them several times trying to ascertain their meaning. Here is a particularly egregious example, "But the County Council rejected his choice to implement open government, a chief aid to Jim Wright, the powerful Democratic speaker of the House of Representatives in Washington." I'm not even sure that is a proper sentence.
Anyways, bottom line - This is a great book in terms of detailing how racism shaped the Baltimore housing market, but it is a chore to read.
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