Oct 30 2019

Race For Profit: A Book talk with Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

October 30, 2019

6:00 PM - 7:30 PM

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Location

Student Center East, Rm. 302

Address

750 S. Halsted St. , Room 302, Chicago, IL 60607

Cost

Free and Open to Public

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Join the Social Justice Initiative and author Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor for a discussion about her new book, Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership, which has been longlisted for a 2019 National Book Award. Taylor will be in conversation with professor and author, Elizabeth Todd-Breland.

About the Book:
Race for Profit uncovers how exploitative real estate practices continued well after housing discrimination was banned. The book explores how by the end of the 1970s, the nation’s first programs to encourage Black homeownership ended with tens of thousands of foreclosures in Black communities across the country.
About the Author: 
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor writes and speaks on Black politics, social movements, and racial inequality in the United States. She is Assistant Professor of African American Studies at Princeton University. Taylor has authored From # BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation and is editor of How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective.
Taylor’s writing has appeared in the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Boston Review, Paris Review, Guardian, The Nation, Jacobin, and Souls: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture, and Society, among others.
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Contact

Social Justice Initiative
312-934-3557
sjiuic@gmail.com

Date posted

Oct 21, 2019

Date updated

Oct 21, 2019

Speakers

Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor | Author, professor, and expert on housing policy

Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor writes and speaks on Black politics, social movements, and racial inequality in the United States. She is Assistant Professor of African American Studies at Princeton University. Taylor has authored From # BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation and is editor of How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective.

Elizabeth Todd-Breland | Author and professor | UIC- University of Illinois at Chicago

Historian Elizabeth Todd-Breland explores how 20th-century societal shifts produced racialized political struggles for power, resources, and representation that remain key issues in current urban policy debates in Chicago and across the nation.