Few black families fell into this category, and even those that did were often shut out of the market by realtors’ discrimination. These policies were structured to favor purchasers who could afford to buy in the newly built suburbs. Taylor begins her story in the aftermath of World War II, when successive governments began to push for more-widespread homeownership. Race for Profit was longlisted for the 2019 National Book Award. The book, which was Taylor’s doctoral dissertation, focuses on the role played by discriminatory policies and corporate greed in the troubled history of black homeownership in twentieth-century America. Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership is a 2019 work of non-fiction by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, Assistant Professor of African-American Studies at Princeton University.
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