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Race for profit : how banks and the real estate industry undermined Black homeownership

Title: Race for profit : how banks and the real estate industry undermined Black homeownership / Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor.
Author: Taylor, Keeanga-Yamahtta
Publication: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2019]

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Description

349 pages : illustrations; 25 cm.

Summary

"Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor offers a ... chronicle of the twilight of redlining and the introduction of conventional real estate practices into the Black urban market, uncovering a transition from racist exclusion to predatory inclusion. Widespread access to mortgages across the United States after World War II cemented homeownership as fundamental to conceptions of citizenship and belonging. African Americans had long faced racist obstacles to homeownership, but the social upheaval of the 1960s forced federal government reforms. In the 1970s, new housing policies encouraged African Americans to become homeowners, and these programs generated unprecedented real estate sales in Black urban communities. However, inclusion in the world of urban real estate was fraught with new problems. As new housing policies came into effect, the real estate industry abandoned its aversion to African Americans, especially Black women, precisely because they were more likely to fail to keep up their home payments and slip into foreclosure"--

Series Statement

Justice, power, and politics

Uniform Title

Justice, power, and politics.

Subject

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-333) and index.

Contents

Unfair housing -- The business of the urban housing crisis -- Forced integration -- Let the buyer beware -- Unsophisticated buyers -- The urban crisis is over, long live the urban crisis.

Call Number

Sc E 19-1597

ISBN

9781469653662
1469653664
9781469653679 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2019014012

OCLC

1096213739

Author

Taylor, Keeanga-Yamahtta, author.

Title

Race for profit : how banks and the real estate industry undermined Black homeownership / Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor.

Publisher

Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2019]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Justice, power, and politics

Justice, power, and politics.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-333) and index.

Chronological Term

1900-1999

Local Subject

Black author.

Research Call Number

Sc E 19-1597

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