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Hate Thy Neighbor: Lessons for Neighborhood Integration for the Post-Obama Era and Beyond

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 December 2018

Jeannine Bell
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Abstract

This essay explores contemporary racial harassment, hate crimes, and violence targeted at African Americans and other racial minorities who have moved to white neighborhoods in the 1990s and 2000s, as described in my book Hate Thy Neighbor: Move In Violence and the Persistence of Segregation in American Housing. The essay details the experiences of blacks, Latinos, and Asian Americans who face race-based hate crimes upon integrating white neighborhoods. This violence is not limited to a specific geographic area of the United States, and is an important factor in continuing patterns of racial segregation. Social segregation and the failure of existing law to address this violence are important factors in its survival. Analyzing the roots and causes of such violence, the essay calls for greater attention to the enforcement of legal remedies designed to address neighborhood hate crime.

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Review Essay
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Law & Social Inquiry , Volume 42 , Issue 2 , Spring 2017 , pp. 577 - 581
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Copyright © American Bar Foundation, 2017 

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