Housing and the Construction of the Black Urban Identity

Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor (Assistant Professor of African American Studies at Princeton University) speaks with Michael Dawson about her new book, Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership . 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. Link to Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership Further Reading: David Theo Goldberg (2001), The Racial State

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Housing and the Construction of the Black Urban Identity is an episode from New Dawn by Michael Dawson.

This episode is 00:54:16 long.

This episode was published on Oct 21, 2019.

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