"Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor offers a ... chronicle of the twilight of redlining and the introduction of conventional real estate practices into the Black urban market, uncovering a transition from racist exclusion to predatory inclusion. Widespread access to mortgages across the United States after World War II cemented homeownership as fundamental to conceptions of citizenship and belonging. African Americans had long faced racist obstacles to homeownership,...

"In the last few decades, any hope of economic progress for black Americans has been slowly and steadily undermined. This quiet crisis was only exacerbated by the recession, which cut black households' wealth by over 30 percent. Black millennials watched their parents try to play by the rules, buying homes and aspiring to the trappings of middle-class life, only to sink deeper and deeper into debt. Now, in the post-Obama era, young black Americans...

Despǔs de la elecci̤n de Barack Obama, muchos declararon el comienzo de una era post-racial. Sin embargo, el pensamiento racista, m̀s sofisticado e insidioso que nunca, permanece profundamente arraigado en la sociedad estadounidense. Como sostiene Ibram X. Kendi, la voz m̀s influyente en la lucha antirracista y uno de los l̕deres actuales del movimiento # BlackLivesMatter, aunque las ideas racistas se desarrollan, difunden y consagran con mucha...

"A history of racist and antiracist ideas in America, from their roots in Europe until today, adapted from the National Book Award winner Stamped from the Beginning"-- "El concepto de raza siempre se ha utilizado para ganar y mantener el poder, para crear dinámicas que separan y silencian. Esta notable adaptación del libro Stamped from the Beginning, del Dr. Ibram X. Kendi, ganador del National Book Award, revela la historia de las ideas racistas...