Podcast
On Being with Krista Tippett
Coates's work elegantly details a history of legalized housing discrimination, highlighting the intentional and legal mechanisms through which white people hoarded resources at the expense of others; Biss was inspired by Coates' work when researching the history of redlining and housing discrimination in her community.
And Ta-Nehisi Coates has written really beautifully about this.
— Episode: [Unedited] Eula Biss with Krista Tippett
Episode: [Unedited] Eula Biss with Krista Tippett
Coates's work elegantly details a history of legalized housing discrimination, highlighting the intentional and legal mechanisms through which white people hoarded resources at the expense of others; Biss was inspired by Coates' work when researching the history of redlining and housing discrimination in her community.
And Ta-Nehisi Coates has written really beautifully about this.
I didn't tell him that slaves once accounted for more wealth than all the industry in this country combined or that slaves were as Ta-Nehisi Coates writes, the down payment on this country's independence, or that freed slaves became after the Civil War, this country's second mortgage.