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

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"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 Wor...

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Main Author: Taylor, Keeanga-Yamahtta (Author)
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2019]
Series:Justice, power, and politics.
Subjects:
Discrimination in housing > United States > History > 20th century.
Discrimination in mortgage loans > United States > History > 20th century.
Urban African Americans > Housing > History > 20th century.
African American women > Housing > History > 20th century.
Real estate business > United States > History > 20th century.
United States > Race relations > Economic aspects.
Discrimination in housing.
Discrimination in mortgage loans.
Race relations > Economic aspects.
Real estate business.
United States.
1900-1999
History.
Genre:
History.
Physical Description:349 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Format: Book
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.