S4E4: Housing and the Construction of the Black Urban Identity

Episode 4: Housing and the Construction of the Black Urban Identity

Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor (Assistant Professor of African American Studies at Princeton University) speaks with Michael Dawson about her new book, Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership. She talks about how black urban identity is constructed, why she is against homeownership, and how the housing crisis isn't a crisis but a feature of society.

Link to Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership