ABSTRACT
The stubborn persistence of segregated housing lies close to the core of our society's racial impasse. Notwithstanding a variety of laws and court decisions designed to put an end to housing discrimination, America remains a land in which the phrases “white neighborhood” and “black neighborhood” are saturated with meaning, and in which the term “mixed neighborhood,” far from signifying the norm, is often a euphemism for a neighborhood in decline. This state of affairs is perhaps the most undeniable sign that we have not yet transcended the tragedy of slavery and its more than century-long aftermath.
