Excluding Blacks and Others From Housing: The Foundation of White RacismAbstractSome time after English writer Henry Fairlie emigrated to the United States in the mid-1960s, he visited Thomas Jefferson's Monticello plantation and took the standard tour. When the White guide asked for questions, Fairlie inquired, "Where did he keep his slaves?" Fairlie reports that the other tourists looked at him in disturbed silence, while the guide "swallowed hard" and said firmly that "the slaves' quarters are not included in the official tour." (Fairlie, 1985.) Housing segregation, and the systemic racism it reveals, are still not on the official tour.Excluding Blacks and Others From Housing: The Foundation of White Racism (*.pdf)
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