Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership

"In Race for Profit, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor disrupts the notion that housing discrimination in the United States exists in some distant past. Following the Fair Housing Act of 1968 and the outlawing of redlining, Taylor shows how the exclusion of Black Americans from the real-estate market continued within a state-sanctioned system of discriminatory homeownership – what Taylor calls “predatory inclusion.” You’ll come away from this book with a new understanding of space and race in America, how the past is inextricable from our present and, ultimately, how the American Dream and ideals of property, homeownership and citizenship are fraught with violence."

"an expertly told history of the post-civil rights emergence of what Taylor terms "predatory inclusion""