“A Rcialized Blueprint to land settlement was in place before the urban development of modern Oakland, and operational thereafter."
-Mitchell Schwarzer 2021
Hella Town Oakland’s History of Development and Disruption By Mitchell Schwarzer
Hella Town excavates the ways that industry and transportation shaped the East Bay, Alameda, Oakland, and Berkeley. Schwarzer shares research on race and the creation of all white-suburbs due to, racial restrictive covenants. Redlining shaping the terms of how to buy a house in the 20th century with a 30 year mortgage, the federal government rating levels of “risk” for banks to loan money, on the basis of race. These laws affect Oakland and almost all U.S. metropolitan cities today.
