Segregating Silicon Valley

David Goldfield, editor of The Journal of Urban History, accepted my research paper, “Segregating the Suburbs: Ladera Housing Cooperative 1944-1950” for publication. The article examines Ladera, a 1940s interracial housing cooperative in Portola, California and the role that federal lending practices played in maintaining racially segregated suburbs. During the research, I accessed archival materials at Stanford University including the cooperative’s records and personal journals, and the original architectural drawings at University of California Berkeley Environmental Design Archives. I also examined the Federal Housing Administration’s internal memos and correspondence at the National Archives and Records Administration [NARA] in College Park MD. Much thanks and appreciation goes to the Graham Foundation for the Advanced Studies in the Arts for their generous research support. @grahamfoundation