Housing and the Construction of the Black Urban Identity




New Dawn show

Summary: <p>Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor (Assistant Professor of African American Studies at Princeton University) speaks with Michael Dawson about her new book, <u>Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership</u>. She talks about how black urban identity is constructed, why she is against homeownership, and how the housing crisis isn't a crisis but a feature of society. </p> <p>Link to <a href="https://www.uncpress.org/book/9781469653662/race-for-profit/"><u>Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership</u></a></p> <p>Further Reading:</p> <p>David Theo Goldberg (2001), <a href="https://www.wiley.com/en-us/The+Racial+State-p-9780631199212"><u>The Racial State</u></a></p> <p><br></p> <p><br></p> <p><br></p>