| Description |
1 online resource (349 pages) : illustrations. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Justice, power, and politics
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Justice, power, and politics.
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| 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. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-333) and index. |
| 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"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Awards |
Longlisted for the 2019 National Book Award |
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Liberty Legacy Foundation Award, 2020. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Discrimination in housing -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Discrimination in housing. |
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United States. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
| Subject |
Discrimination in mortgage loans -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Discrimination in mortgage loans. |
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Urban African Americans -- Housing -- History -- 20th century.
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Urban African Americans. |
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Housing. |
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African American women -- Housing -- History -- 20th century.
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African American women. |
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Real estate business -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Real estate business. |
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United States -- Race relations -- Economic aspects.
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Race relations. |
| Chronological Term |
1900-1999 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Taylor, Keeanga-Yamahtta. Race for profit. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2019] 9781469653662 (DLC) 2019014012 (OCoLC)1096213739 |
| ISBN |
9781469653686 (electronic book) |
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1469653680 (electronic book) |
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9781469653679 (electronic book) |
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1469653672 (electronic book) |
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9781469653662 |
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1469653664 |
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1303625237 |
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9781303625237 |
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