This is the subject taken up by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor’s engrossing and penetrating book, Race for Profit. These policies encouraged white homeownership in suburbs and largely restricted African Americans to deteriorating rental housing in the urban core.įar less is known, however, about federal housing policy that targeted African Americans after officials ended the practice of redlining in the late 1960s. Building on decades of work by activists and scholars, recent writings by authors such as Ta-Nehisi Coates and Richard Rothstein have helped inform public understanding of and conversations about the history of government-backed practices like redlining. The federal government’s role in perpetuating residential segregation during the 20th century has finally begun to receive greater public attention.
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