Housing and the Construction of the Black Urban Identity
- Author
- Michael Dawson
- Published
- Mon 21 Oct 2019
- Episode Link
- https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/new-dawn/episodes/Housing-and-the-Construction-of-the-Black-Urban-Identity-e6oobr
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
