{"product_id":"race-for-profit-9781469653662","title":"Race for Profit","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOffers a damning chronicle of the twilight of redlining and the introduction of conventional real estate practices into the Black urban market, uncovering a transition from racist exclusion to predatory inclusion.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e“What’s the last great book you read?”\u003cbr\u003e“I can’t just name one. I want to highlight three great books I recently read on America’s political economy. The first, \u003c\/i\u003eRace for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership\u003ci\u003e, by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, is an expertly told history of the post-civil rights emergence of what Taylor terms “predatory inclusion”. The second, \u003c\/i\u003eFrom Here to Equality: Reparations for Black Americans in the Twenty-First Century\u003ci\u003e, by William A. Darity Jr. and A. Kirsten Mullen, is the best booklong case for reparations. The third, \u003c\/i\u003eThe Broken Heart of America: St. Louis and the Violent History of the United States\u003ci\u003e, by Walter Johnson, adroitly examines a U.S. history of imperial racial capitalism with its crosswinds centered in St. Louis.”\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cb\u003e- Dr. Ibram Kendi, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, March 20201\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"The University of North Carolina Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51040102187351,"sku":"9781469653662","price":29.66,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781469653662.jpg?v=1750945749","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/race-for-profit-9781469653662","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}