“In the United States, it’s very stark that the past is not yet past. Problems that we think of as historical in fact continue to impact our lives on a daily basis,” says Princeton historian and writer Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor. Last week Taylor received a 2021 MacArthur “Genius” Fellowship for her scholarship on how past and present political and economic policies sustain chronic racial inequality, and how social movements, like Black Lives Matter, can transform that narrative. We’ll talk to Taylor about her work and her most recent book “Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Home Ownership” which was a finalist for the 2020 Pulitzer prize.
Historian Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor on the Structures of Racial Inequality and the Social Movements Fighting It
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Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor is a 2021 MacArthur Fellow and author of "Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership." (John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation)
Guests:
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, professor, Department of African American Studies, Princeton University, author,"Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership."
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