wealth gap

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  11/29/2021
  

  The Invention of America's Most Dangerous Idea

  by Gene Slater

  How did a right-wing conception of "freedom" rooted in the individual's absolute property rights supersede an idea of freedom based in social equality? Blame the real estate industry. 

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• SOURCE: Last Week Tonight
  7/26/2021
  

  Last Week Tonight with John Oliver Ties the History of Housing Discrimination to Reparations

  John Oliver breaks down the long history of housing discrimination in the U.S., the damage it’s done, and, crucially, what we can do about it.

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• SOURCE: Dissent
  7/8/2021
  

  Redlining, Race, and the Color of Money

  by Garrett Dash Nelson

  "Redlining maps reveal how the federal government managed risk for capital—a role that has perpetuated inequality long after the end of explicit discrimination in the housing market."

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  5/27/2021
  

  The Housing Market is Booming but Remains Deeply Unequal

  by LaDale Winling

  The standards and practices of real estate appraisal were developed in the context of white supremacy in the 1920s and since then have worked to make home ownership a path toward building wealth that has favored white Americans. 

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  5/24/2021
  

  How 24 Hours of Racist Violence Caused Decades of Harm

  by Jeremy Cook and Jason Long

  Census analysis shows how the Tulsa race massacre inaugurated a U-turn in the economic fortunes of the city's black community and gives a sense of the value of property lost. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  3/20/2021
  

  Your Home’s Value Is Based on Racism

  by Dorothy A. Brown

  The real estate market isn't "free" – it is shaped by the preferences of white buyers who prefer much less racial integration than black buyers do. Consequently, the market is a machine for expanding racial inequality through home equity. 

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• SOURCE: Bloomberg Equality
  3/11/2021
  

  My Family’s Long-Gone Texas Land Shows How Black Wealth Is Won and Lost

  by Jacqueline Simmons

  A host of the Pay Check podcast introduces a new season that will examine her family's history of landholding in Texas as a lens on the historical roots of the black-white wealth gap. 

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• SOURCE: Vox
  1/26/2021
  

  The Mirage of the Black Middle Class

  by Anne Helen Petersen

  Economic policy debates center on restoring the security of the middle class, but this overlooks that high-earning Black Americans have and still face structural impediments to building wealth through homeownership. 

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• SOURCE: Bloomberg CityLab
  9/21/2020
  

  A Neighborhood’s Race Affects Home Values More Now Than in 1980

  by Brentin Mock

  The real estate industry has adopted appraisal standards in response to fair housing laws that are, on the surface, race-neutral. But they don't account for the ways that racism has lowered the sale value in diverse neighborhoods, and still penalize Black and Latino homeowners. 

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• SOURCE: The Nation
  8/25/2020
  

  The Burning House: How Federal Housing Programs Failed Black America (Review)

  by Marcia Chatelain

  "As Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor shows in Race for Profit, we are also only beginning to reckon with the complex network of bankers, real estate agents, and federal agencies that used the rhetoric of equality to obscure a set of race-to-the-bottom schemes that sought to extract as much wealth as possible from poor Black Americans."

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• SOURCE: ColorLines
  8/26/2020
  

  The Great White Heist (The Other Reason For Reparations)

  Slavery is the usual argument for reparations. But there’s another rationale.

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• SOURCE: The New Republic
  6/29/2020
  

  The Surprising Cross-Racial Saga of Modern Wealth Inequality

  by Adolph Reed Jr.

  A political scientist argues that the black-white wealth gap is mostly a product of four decades of income gains accruing to the highest earners; accordingly a broad economic justice program is the best way to close the wealth gap. 

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• SOURCE: CNN
  6/28/2020
  

  Nikole Hannah-Jones on the Case for Reparations

  The creator of The New York Times 1619 project and Pulitzer Prize winner Nikole Hannah-Jones speaks with CNN's Manu Raju about the history behind the wealth gap between white Americans and Black Americans

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• SOURCE: WBUR
  6/23/2020
  

  Tackling The Racial Wealth Gap: William Darity's Plan For Reparations (Audio)

  WBUR's On Point discusses the issue of reparations to African Americans with economics and public policy professor William Darity and also discusses the legacy of the Rosewood Massacre with the grandson of the oldest survivor of the Florida episode of racist terrorism.

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• SOURCE: History.com
  1/27/20
  

  How the Gilded Age's Top 1 Percent Thrived on Corruption

  Railroads Were at the Forefront of Political Corruption  

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• 10/27/19
  

  The Widening Gap Between the Super-Rich and Other Americans

  by Lawrence Wittner

  Although President Donald Trump has claimed that “inequality is down,” federal data released this year show that, in 2018, the nation’s income inequality reached the highest level since the U.S. Census Bureau began measuring it five decades before.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  6/19/19
  

  Why the racial wealth gap persists, more than 150 years after emancipation

  by Calvin Schermerhorn

  When one system of economic oppression collapsed, new ones were created to fill the void.