Journal of Social Equity and Public Administration

Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

Adam Butz

California State University, Long Beach

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9235-3916

Christopher Tyler Burks

School of Public Affairs, University of Arkansas at Little Rock

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7788-4727

DOI: https://doi.org/10.24926/jsepa.v3i2.6329

Keywords: Book review, nonprofit, racial disparities, racial capitalism, housing

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Abstract

This piece is a review of the heralded book, Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership (2019, The University of North Carolina Press). While Taylor’s Race for Profit has been widely praised among reviewers in disciplines like history, urban planning, and business administration, its lessons have not been fully unpacked for the field of public administration. We first highlight important and relevant sections of the book, then discuss lessons for social equity and public administration. 

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Author Biographies

Adam Butz, California State University, Long Beach

Adam M. Butz (he/him) (adam.butz@csulb.edu) is an associate professor in the Graduate Center for Public Policy & Administration at California State University, Long Beach. He studies U.S. social policy, race and social equity, urban affairs, and representative bureaucracy. His research appears in Public Administration Review, Policy Studies Journal, Social Policy & Administration, Poverty & Public Policy, Evaluation Review, and Cities.

Christopher Tyler Burks, School of Public Affairs, University of Arkansas at Little Rock

Christopher Tyler Burks (he/him) (cburks@ualr.edu) is an assistant professor in the School of Public Affairs at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. He studies urban policy and regional governance. His scholarship appears in the Journal of Social Equity and Public Administration and Journal of Public Affairs Education.

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