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‘Race For Profit’: An Author’s Response

March 12, 2021March 19, 2021 Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor #RaceForProfit, housing, Racial Capitalism

*This post is part of our roundtable on Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor’s ‘Race for Profit.’ Dr. Taylor will be in conversation with Dr. Davarian

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The Roots of Racial and Spatial Inequality

March 9, 2021March 19, 2021 Kimberley S. Johnson #AAIHSRoundtable, #RaceForProfit, capitalism, class, economic history, housing, race, racism, segregation, white supremacy

*This post is part of our roundtable on Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor’s ‘Race for Profit’ The cover of Businessweek’s February 13, 2013 issue

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The American Dream and the Urban Crisis

March 8, 2021March 19, 2021 Julia Rabig #RaceForProfit, Black women, capitalism, civil rights, economic history, Gender, housing, race, racism, segregation, urban history

*This post is part of our roundtable on Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor’s ‘Race for Profit’ For decades, historians have chronicled manifestations of systemic

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How State Surveillance Undermines Black Freedom Movements

March 5, 2021March 5, 2021 Nishani Frazier Black Power, carceral state, Malcolm X

Ray Wood was known to me only in family lore I’d forgotten. CORE scholar L. E. J. Rachell and James

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Black Women Have Shaped Politics in Boston for Centuries

March 4, 2021March 3, 2021 Kabria Baumgartner

Kim Janey will probably vacate her position as president of the Boston City Council to become the city’s acting mayor.

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