This book was published with the assistance of the John Hope Franklin Fund of the University of North Carolina Press.

© 2019 Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

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Cover photo: Child on steps of a North Philadelphia row house, August 1973 (photo by Dick Swanson; courtesy U.S. National Archives, photo no. 412-DA-10279)

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Taylor, Keeanga-Yamahtta, author.

Title: Race for profit : how banks and the real estate industry undermined black homeownership / by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor.

Other titles: Justice, power, and politics.

Description: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2019] | Series: Justice, power, and politics | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2019014012| ISBN 9781469653662 (cloth : alk. paper) | ISBN 9781469653679 (ebook)

Subjects: LCSH: Discrimination in housing—United States—History—20th century. | Discrimination in mortgage loans—United States—History—20th century. | Urban African Americans—Housing—History—20th century. | African American women—Housing—History—20th century. | Real estate business—United States—History—20th century. | United States—Race relations—Economic aspects.

Classification: LCC HD7288.76.U6 T89 2019 | DDC 363.5/1—dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019014012