American politics in modern history have revolved around the protection and expansion of the middle class. When analyzing this theme, it is important to note that such a class is a manifestation of fairly recently implemented governmental policies and socioeconomic developments. While the economic power house of post World War II America was formed under these structures, the institutional racism associated within these advancements actively perpetuated and furthered racial disparity. Through the process of racially discriminatory suburban housing policy, redlining and devaluation of integrated communities, and thus an exclusionary accumulation of property wealth, the modern middle class was constructed at the expense of American minorities.