Grasping for the American Dream: Racial Segregation, Social Mobility, and Homeownership

ISBN-13: 9780367075927 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 142 str.

Nora E. Taplin-Kaguru

Opis

African American homebuyers continue to pay more for and get less from homeownership. This book explains how fervent adherence to the American Dream amongst working-class African Americans makes them vulnerable in a structurally racist housing market.

O autorze

Nora E. Taplin-Kaguru is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Earlham College. She is an urban sociologist, studying racism, housing, the built environment and social media. She has also been published in City & Community.