Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership

Throughout the late 1960s, the African American working classes in cities across the United States erupted in mass rebellions as an escalation of their historically informed resistance to racial oppression. Although state sponsored surveillance and violence and economic exploitation were the prime catalysts for the mass unrest, de jure and de facto barriers to housing, particularly redlining, also proved instrumental in African American disillusionment with the American political system. Cons...