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Blockbusting
Meaning
Noun
●
In American English:
A
technique
used to
encourage
people to
sell
their
property
by
giving
the
impression
that a
neighborhood
is
changing
for the worse
, especially by
implying
a change in its
racial
makeup.
Adj
●
Having the
characteristics
of a
blockbuster
;
hugely
successful.
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Downzoning
Sharecropping
Ghettoization
Blaxploitation
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Sundown Towns
Urban Renewal
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