Race for Profit – LPE Project https://lpeproject.org The Law and Political Economy Project Fri, 20 Oct 2023 20:26:35 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.1 https://lpeproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/cropped-LPE_Favicon_512px_BlackBG-450x450.png Race for Profit – LPE Project https://lpeproject.org 32 32 Exploitation Entrepreneurialism https://lpeproject.org/blog/exploitation-entrepreneurialism/ Fri, 17 Jan 2020 11:30:53 +0000 https://lpeproject.org/?p=3180 NB: This post is part of a series in our Race for Profit symposium. Read all posts here. Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor’s Race for Profit is an essential read not just for anyone interested in racism, housing segregation and post-Civil Rights era racial politics, but for anyone interested in understanding the American economy. It is impossible to understand contracts, property deeds...

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]]> Addressing Race and Gender Inequities at the Root of Housing Injustice https://lpeproject.org/blog/addressing-race-and-gender-inequities-at-the-root-of-housing-injustice/ Thu, 16 Jan 2020 11:30:02 +0000 https://lpeproject.org/?p=3177 NB: This post is part of a series in our Race for Profit symposium. Read all posts here. As Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor demonstrates in Race for Profit, housing exclusion, instability, and segregation are all racialized in nature, and sewn into the very fabric of American institutions, policies, and value systems. During the height of redlining in the mid-20th century, for example...

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]]> Predatory Inclusion: A Long View of the Race for Profit https://lpeproject.org/blog/predatory-inclusion-a-long-view-of-the-race-for-profit/ Wed, 15 Jan 2020 11:30:07 +0000 https://lpeproject.org/?p=3174 NB: This post is part of a series in our Race for Profit symposium. Read all posts here. The ascending slope of our current housing crisis is a good vantage point from which to think about Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor’s new history of the federal response to an earlier point of crisis: she gives us reason to reconsider the role of the state in historic housing inequality, and new tools for demanding...

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]]> How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership https://lpeproject.org/blog/symposium-race-for-profit-how-banks-and-the-real-estate-industry-undermined-black-homeownership/ Tue, 14 Jan 2020 12:21:30 +0000 https://lpeproject.org/?p=3165 This post is part of our Race for Profit symposium. Read all posts here. In Houston’s upscale Galleria-Uptown neighborhood, the mall known simply as “TheGalleria” is, according to its website, “Texas’ largest and most luxurious shopping destination.” A local real estate website confirmed the value of the location, pointing out that housing values in the neighborhood sustained a “55 percent...

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