Race For Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Ownership
Project LEARN Category
L- Listen
E- Educate
Intended Audience(s)
Theme/Focus
History
Activism
Book Details
Author: Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
Publication Year: 2019
Pages: 368 pages
Book Synopsis
Race for Profit uncovers how exploitative real estate practices continued well after housing discrimination was banned. Narrating the story of a sea-change in housing policy and its dire impact on African Americans, it reveals how the urban core was transformed into a new frontier of cynical extraction.