Episode 15: The Real Estate Page As Colonial Dispatch

Citations Needed

News, Society & Culture

4.8 • 4.1K Ratings

🗓️ 8 November 2017

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Real Estate sections are mostly breezy, fun profiles of the super rich buying up houses and remodeling the ones they already own. Harmless escapist fun? Maybe. But how we write about real estate reveals casually racist and colonial attitudes that are rarely, if ever, examined.

In this episode we talk about why the way we talk about the real estate industry matters and how the white civilizing mission never went away. With guest Aaron Cantú.

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0:00.0	This is Citations Needed with Nemeshirazi and Adam Johnson.
0:09.0	Welcome to Citations Needed, a podcast on the Media, Power, PR, and the History of Bullshit.
0:14.9	I am Nemeshirazi.
0:15.9	I'm Adam Johnson.
0:17.1	You can find us on Twitter at CitationsPod, Facebook, at Citations Needed, and obviously
0:23.8	always can help us out on Patreon at Citations Needed Podcast.
0:30.2	My name is on there, Nemeshirazi, and Adam's name is on there, Adam Johnson.
0:33.4	Hi Adam.
0:34.4	How are you doing buddy?
0:35.4	I'm great.
0:36.4	How are you this week?
0:37.4	Are you excited about today's topic?
0:38.4	I'm actually very excited about today's topic.
0:40.5	So I was asked to do a lecture at Peace University on a topic that I had written about last
0:45.4	year, that I had written about a couple times, and we've talked offline about it a lot
0:49.6	because it's kind of ubiquitous, and a lot of things in media are kind of like revealing
0:55.2	up an underlying problem.
0:57.1	You can sort of see it come to the surface.
0:58.9	It's the tip of the iceberg, and one of those things is the use of colonial and kind of
1:03.2	casually racist language in the real estate journalism vertical.
1:07.2	Real estate journalism is its own kind of beast.
1:09.1	We don't really talk a lot about it because it's sort of widely accepted as being basically
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