Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, professor in the Department of African American Studies, will discuss her book “Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership.” The book examines the ways that housing policies inspired and shaped by the private sector undermined the federal government’s ability to enforce fair housing rules and regulations long after the passage of the Fair Housing Act.
“Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership” was a 2019 semifinalist for a National Book Award for nonfiction and a 2020 finalist for the Pulitzer in History, among a number of other awards and distinctions. In 2021, Taylor was awarded a MacArthur Foundation “Genius” Fellowship.
Stanley N. Katz, an American historian, Director of the Princeton University Center for Arts and Cultural Policy Studies, President Emeritus of the American Council of Learned Societies, and a Friends of Princeton University Library Council Member, will moderate the program.
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