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===Not in my neighborhood=== {{See also|Redlining}} The term ''Not in my neighborhood'', or ''NIMN'', is also frequently used.<ref>{{cite magazine | first = Jon | last = Hull | url = http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,966534,00.html | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080725095112/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,966534,00.html | url-status = dead | archive-date = 25 July 2008 | magazine = Time | publisher = Time Inc | title = Not In My Neighborhood | date = 25 January 1988 | access-date=20 May 2010}}</ref> "NIMN" additionally refers to legislative actions or private agreements made with the sole purpose of maintaining racial identity within a particular neighborhood or residential area by forcefully keeping members of other races from moving into the area.<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Scharper|first1=Diane|title=Ex-Sun author traces bigotry's role in shaping Baltimore|journal=The Baltimore Sun|date=21 March 2010|url=http://articles.baltimoresun.com/2010-03-21/entertainment/bal-ae.bk.neighborhood21mar21_1_blacks-and-jews-rouse-white-woman|access-date=13 August 2015|archive-date=6 August 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150806122319/http://articles.baltimoresun.com/2010-03-21/entertainment/bal-ae.bk.neighborhood21mar21_1_blacks-and-jews-rouse-white-woman|url-status=dead}}</ref> In that regard, "Not in My Neighborhood," by author and journalist Antero Pietila, describes the toll NIMN politics had on housing conditions in Baltimore throughout the 20th century and the systemic, racially based citywide separation it caused.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Pietila|first1=Antero|title=Not in my neighborhood : how bigotry shaped a great American city|date=2010|publisher=Ivan R. Dee|location=Chicago|isbn=978-1566638432|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/notinmyneighborh0000piet}}</ref>
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