Richard R. W. Brooks & Carol M. Rose 
Saving the Neighborhood [EPUB ebook] 
Racially Restrictive Covenants, Law, and Social Norms

Saving the Neighborhood tells the still controversial story of the rise and fall of racially restrictive covenants in America, which bestowed an aura of legitimacy upon the wish of many white neighborhoods to exclude minorities. It offers insight into the ways legal and social norms reinforce one another, to codify and perpetuate intolerance.