Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor is assistant professor of African American studies at Princeton University and author of From BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation.
“What’s the last great book you read?”
“I can’t just name one. I want to highlight three great books I
recently read on America’s political economy. The first, Race for
Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black
Homeownership, by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, is an expertly told
history of the post-civil rights emergence of what Taylor terms
“predatory inclusion”. The second, From Here to Equality:
Reparations for Black Americans in the Twenty-First Century, by
William A. Darity Jr. and A. Kirsten Mullen, is the best booklong
case for reparations. The third, The Broken Heart of America: St.
Louis and the Violent History of the United States, by Walter
Johnson, adroitly examines a U.S. history of imperial racial
capitalism with its crosswinds centered in St. Louis.” - Dr. Ibram
Kendi, New York Times, March 20201
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