Interchange – Cynical Extraction, Racial Liberalism, and Black Homeownership

Published: Dec. 11, 2019, 12:59 a.m.

Starting with real estate reforms in the 1970s supposedly instituted to open a path to the American Dream for Black citizens, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor’s new book, Race for Profit, a study of Black home ownership, argues that the turn from exclusion to inclusion was just another, less explicit, but equally damaging form of systemic racism. By …