White organizers privately equated a stable real estate market with an all-white one.

Evidence

To secure a “stable market”—in other words, a “white market”—the WSMDC contacted several black realtists and convinced them to withdraw their services and signs from Del Mar. — Kevin M. Kruse, White Flight, 198

Categorization

  • XREF: Echoes the color-blind/race-neutral market-language theme emphasized across the civil rights housing literature and Kruse’s own thesis about ‘stable’ becoming a code word. — connects to: White homeowners commissioned buyback corporations funded by capped contributions to keep neighborhoods white — Kevin M. Kruse, White Flight: Atlanta and the Making of…, 218
  • DEFINE: Shows how ‘stability’ functioned as coded economic language for racial exclusion, a key mechanism of ideological reinvention.

Broader Connections