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At the Boundaries of Homeownership

Credit, Discrimination, and the American State

By: Chloe N. Thurston

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At the Boundaries of Homeownership

Credit, Discrimination, and the American State

By: Chloe N. Thurston

In the United States, homeownership is synonymous with economic security and middle-class status. It has played this role in American life for almost a century, and as a result, homeownership's centrality to Americans' economic lives has come to seem natural and inevitable. But this state of affairs did not develop spontaneously or inexorably. On the contrary, it was the product of federal government policies, established during the 1930s and developed over the course of the twentieth century. At the Boundaries of Homeownership traces how the government's role in this became submerged from public view and how several groups who were locked out of homeownership came to recognize and reveal the role of the government. Through organizing and activism, these boundary groups transformed laws and private practices governing determinations of credit-worthiness. This book describes the important policy consequences of their achievements and the implications for how we understand American statebuilding.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108386547

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The Political Development of American Debt Relief

By: Emily Zackin,Chloe N. Thurston

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The Political Development of American Debt Relief

By: Emily Zackin,Chloe N. Thurston

A political history of the rise and fall of American debt relief. Americans have a long history with debt. They also have a long history of mobilizing for debt relief. Throughout the nineteenth century, indebted citizens demanded government protection from their financial burdens, challenging readings of the Constitution that exalted property rights at the expense of the vulnerable. Their appeals shaped the country’s periodic experiments with state debt relief and federal bankruptcy law, constituting a pre-industrial safety net. Yet, the twentieth century saw the erosion of debtor politics and the eventual retrenchment of bankruptcy protections. The Political Development of American Debt Relief traces how geographic, sectoral, and racial politics shaped debtor activism over time, enhancing our understanding of state-building, constitutionalism, and social policy.

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University of Chicago Press

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0226832368

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9780226832364

At the Boundaries of Homeownership

Credit, Discrimination, and the American State

By: Chloe N. Thurston

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Credit, Discrimination, and the American State

By: Chloe N. Thurston

This book is about the ubiquity of boundaries in social, economic, and political life"--

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At the Boundaries of Homeownership

At the Boundaries of Homeownership

The Political Development of American Debt Relief

The Political Development of American Debt Relief

At the Boundaries of Homeownership

At the Boundaries of Homeownership

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