The Long March Toward Neoliberalism: Race and Housing in the Postwar Metropolis

Adolph Reed , Jr. , "Undone by Neoliberalism," The Nation, September 18, 2006; Reed, Jr. , "When Government Shrugs: Lessons of Katrina," The Progressive, September 2006.

Wendy Brown , "American Nightmare: Neoliberalism, Neoconservatism, and De-Democratization," Political Theory 34 (December 2006): 693.

David Harvey , A Brief History of Neoliberalism (New York: Oxford University Press, 2005); see also, Thomas B. Edsall , The New Politics of Inequality (New York: Norton, 1985).

Thomas J. Sugrue, The Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2005); Lisa McGirr , Suburban Warriors: The Origins of the New American Right (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2002); Kevin M. Kruse , White Flight: Atlanta and the Making of Modern Conservatism (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2007); Matthew D. Lassiter , The Silent Majority: Suburban Politics in the Sunbelt South (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2007).

Harvey , A Brief History of Neoliberalism, 42. See, for example, Kevin M. Kruse and Thomas J. Sugrue , eds., The New Suburban History (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006).

Lassiter, The Silent Majority, 3.

Kruse, White Flight, 8.

In addition to the previously cited works of Harvey, Brown, and Reed, see, for example: Neil Smith, The New Urban Frontier: Gentrification and the Revanchist City (New York: Routledge, 1996); Eric Klinenberg, Heatwave: A Social Autopsy of Disaster in Chicago (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002).

For a study that views cultural racism and such notions of "abstract liberalism" working together to shape the ideology of "color-blind racism" in the post-civil rights era, see Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, Racism Without Racists: Color-Blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in the United States (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2003).

Adolph Reed , Jr. , "The Black Urban Regime: Structural Origins and Constraints," Comparative Urban and Community Research 1:138-39.

This argument also rests on previous research conducted by Pattillo indicating relatively high percentages of middle-class blacks who claimed to have a poor sibling (40 percent as compared with 16 percent for whites) or who claimed to have been raised poor themselves (33 percent). She also cites Michael Dawson’s conclusion that middle-class blacks are more likely to view their fate as linked with other African Americans.

Brown , "American Nightmare: Neoliberalism, Neoconservatism, and De-Democratization," 704.

Klinenberg, Heatwave.