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SOURCE: Black Perspectives
3/3/2021
Online Roundtable: Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor’s ‘Race for Profit’
Black Perspectives, the blog of the African American Intellectual History Society, will sponsor a virtual roundtable on the award-winning "Race For Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership" with new essays being released beginning March 8.
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11/8/2020
The New York Con
by David Marks
Supporters of the president will eventually realize that they trusted a man who despised them.
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SOURCE: Bloomberg CityLab
9/21/2020
A Neighborhood’s Race Affects Home Values More Now Than in 1980
by Brentin Mock
The real estate industry has adopted appraisal standards in response to fair housing laws that are, on the surface, race-neutral. But they don't account for the ways that racism has lowered the sale value in diverse neighborhoods, and still penalize Black and Latino homeowners.
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SOURCE: New York Times
8/14/2020
The Black Lives Next Door
by Richard Rothstein
Activism for racial justice will not succeed until activists recognize how residential segregation has been made into a normal feature of the American landscape and pressure the developers and banks who have profited from it to take restorative action.
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SOURCE: Washington Post
Trump’s Racist Housing Tweet is Par for His Family
Columnist Jennifer Rubin argues that Trump's appeal to white suburban homeowners echoes the discriminatory rental practices that built the Trump family real estate business.
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