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  title info:
    title: Philip Payton
    sub title: The Father of Black Harlem
  name:
    name part: McGruder, Kevin
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: aut
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: xx#
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource 15 figures
  abstract: At the turn of the early twentieth century, Harlem—the iconic Black neighborhood—was predominantly white. The Black real estate entrepreneur Philip Payton played a central role in Harlem’s transformation. He founded the Afro-American Realty Company in 1903, vowing to vanquish housing discrimination. Yet this ambitious mission faltered as Payton faced the constraints of white capitalist power structures.In this biography, Kevin McGruder explores Payton’s career and its implications for the history of residential segregation. Payton stood up for the right of Black people to live in Harlem in the face of vocal white resistance. Through skillful use of print media, he branded Harlem as a Black community and attracted interest from those interested in racial uplift. Yet while Payton “opened” Harlem streets, his business model depended on continued racial segregation. Like white real estate investors, he benefited from the lack of housing options available to desperate Black tenants by charging higher rents. Payton developed a specialty in renting all-Black buildings, rather than the integrated buildings he had once envisioned, and his personal successes ultimately entrenched Manhattan’s racial boundaries. McGruder highlights what Payton’s story shows about the limits of seeking advancement through enterprise in a capitalist system deeply implicated in racial inequality.At a time when understanding the roots of residential segregation has become increasingly urgent, this biography sheds new light on the man and the forces that shaped Harlem
  note: Kevin McGruder
  subject:
    topic: African American businesspeople / New York (State) / New York / Biography
  subject:
    topic: African Americans / Housing / New York (State) / New York / History / 20th century
  subject:
    topic: Discrimination in housing / New York (State) / New York / History / 20th century
  subject:
    topic: Real estate developers / New York (State) / New York / Biography
  subject:
    topic: Real estate development / New York (State) / New York / History / 20th century
  subject:
    topic: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Cultural, Ethnic & Regional / African American & Black
  identifier: 9780231552875
  identifier: 2021002790
  identifier: https://doi.org/10.7312/mcgr19892
  identifier: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780231552875
  identifier: https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780231552875/original
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      url: https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780231552875/original
  record info:
    record content source: EBA-deGruyter
    record creation date: 210927
    record change date: 20250109102507.0
    record identifier: 99371014045106441
    language of cataloging:
      language term: ger