“Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership,” Professor Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor (A virtual event)
The Friends of Princeton University Library welcome Professor Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, who will discuss her book, “Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership.” The book examines the ways that housing policies inspired and shaped by the private sector undermined the federal government’s ability to enforce fair housing rules and regulations long after the passage of the Fair Housing Act. The failure to redress the damage from decades of legalized housing discrimination allowed the housing industry to misrepresent poor conditions, overcrowding, and distressed property into evidence that Black consumers were a risk in the housing market. Taylor argues that the predatory inclusion of Black families into the post-Civil Rights homeownership market has produced debt, not wealth, while reproducing patterns of residential and racial segregation.
Stanley N. Katz, an American historian, Director of the Princeton University Center for Arts and Cultural Policy Studies, President Emeritus of the American Council of Learned Societies, and a Friends of Princeton University Library Council Member, will moderate the program.
Register here before Friday, January 21, 12:00 p.m.: https://princeton.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_mC3jDOTmQxS2m_o-ur3SdA
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor is a Professor in the Department of African-American Studies at Princeton University. “Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership” was a 2019 semifinalist for a National Book Award for nonfiction and a 2020 finalist for the Pulitzer in History, among a number of other awards and distinctions. In 2021, Taylor was awarded a MacArthur Foundation "Genius" Fellowship.
- Date:
- Sunday, January 23, 2022
- Time:
- 3:00pm - 5:00pm
- Audience:
- Friends of Princeton University Library Member of the Public Princeton Alumni Princeton Faculty/Researcher Princeton Staff Princeton Student Student Friends of Princeton University Library
- Categories:
- Friends of the Princeton University Library Event
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor is a Professor in the Department of African-American Studies at Princeton University. She is author of “Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership,” published in 2019 by the University of North Carolina Press, a semi-finalist for a National Book Award for nonfiction and a 2020 finalist for the Pulitzer in History. Taylor’s book, “From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation,” won the Lannan Cultural Freedom Award for an Especially Notable Book in 2016. She is also editor of “How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective,” which won the Lambda Literary Award for LGBTQ nonfiction in 2018. In 2021, Taylor was awarded a MacArthur Foundation "Genius" Fellowship. Read more about Professor Taylor
This event is part of the Friends of the Princeton University Library Small Talks Series held each month on a Sunday at 3 p.m.
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