In fact, the gap between white and Black homeownership is bigger today than it was in 1960, when race-based discrimination in the U.S. But more than a century and a half after the end of slavery, property ownership eludes Black Americans more than any other racial group. There's also an assumption in this country that owning a home is the best way to build intergenerational wealth. Yet we began as a nation that considered Black people to be property, to be three-fifths of a person. You see there was a time when owning property was required simply to participate in this democracy. And one of the underpinnings of democracy, without question, is property ownership. Which is available now from University of North Carolina press and comes out everywhere this week.This week, we're celebrating NPR's 50th anniversary, kicking off a series we're calling We Hold These Truths to examine what's working and what's not in American democracy. Additionally through the course of the conversation Taylor provides her insight into key questions for socialists in the US today, including questions surrounding the Sanders campaign, the lack of US internationalism.įor context this interview took place back in July, but we agreed to time it with the release of the book. We talk to Taylor about why this book - which is based on her dissertation ended up being her third book. The book is a thorough analysis of how racism and capitalism in the US worked together through public and private partnership, after organizers and rebellions brought about the formal end of redlining at the end of the 1960’s. In this interview we discuss some of the central themes of Race For Profit, and some of the historical figures within it. In 2017, she also published How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective.
Taylor is also the author of From #BlackLivesMatter To Black Liberation, which articulates many of the historical arguments she references throughout our conversation. The book has already been put on the long-list for the National Book Award. In this episode we interviewed professor and author Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor about her latest book Race For Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership.
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