TY - JOUR
AU - Mohl, Raymond A.
AB - 728 The Journal of American History September 200 1 of Forbidden Neighbors (1955), in which Charles population majorities have emerged in many Abrams contended that a more committed of the nation's largest cities, while the expand­ federal government could by law end exclu­ ing suburbs remained primarily white. Wil­ sionary practices. Abrams, insists Meyer, ig­ son's book is part of an emerging literature nored the deep-seated hatred and entrenched demonstrating that Mrican Americans were interests of the "neighbors" themselves. In also suburbanizing after midcentury but pri­ fact, much of Meyer's book catalogs the failure marily to segregated black towns and neighbor­ of laws appreciably to impact segregation pat­ hoods. Built in the mid-1950s on the remote terns. Racism, he contends, is not learned be­ north side of metropolitan Dallas, Hamilton havior to be simply unlearned, as Abrams Park was one such segregated suburban preached. With Derrick Bell and Howard community. Rabinowitz, Meyer regards racism as a primor­ Race had everything to do with the loca­ dial impulse resistant to legal imperatives and tion, planning, building, settlement, progress, classroom exhortations. and eventual decline of Hamilton Park. Be­ By focusing on turbulent, race-driven tween 1940 and 1960, Dallas experienced a housing 
TI - Hamilton Park: A Planned Black Community in Dallas. By William H. Wilson. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998. xii, 266 pp. $39.95, ISBN 0-8018-5766-X.)
JO - The Journal of American History
DO - 10.2307/2675238
DA - 2001-09-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/hamilton-park-a-planned-black-community-in-dallas-by-william-h-wilson-KCU6GC8ie1
SP - 728
EP - 729
VL - 88
IS - 2
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