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Portland's Exiles: Pricing Out African Americans, Henry Mcgee

Henry W McGee Jr.

Abstract Displacement of Blacks by unprejudiced whites who are willing to live next door to people of color continues to plague African Americans who suffer disrupted neighborhoods. African Americans in Portland, Oregon in the period between 1990 and 2000, were displaced by whites who moved to Northeast Portland because of significantly lower house prices, a consistent characteristic of Black neighborhoods. Hitherto insulated from inflated house prices because of racial prejudice, African Americans developed businesses and social institutions over the decades in which they were able only to purchase homes in Portland’s Black “ghetto.” A sea change in racial attitudes has …