The Legacy of Redlining

In The Thick

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🗓️ 19 February 2019

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Discrimination and housing segregation in the United States didn't happened by chance. In this episode, our guests Richard Rothstein, author of the book The Color of Law, and Emmanuel Martinez, data reporter for Reveal, explain how redlining still shapes our cities and affects people of color. ITT Staff Picks:

Reveal's award-winning investigative series Kept Out, which Emmanuel co-reported for, explores how housing discrimination still happens through banks and loans.
Richard Rothstein and Ta-Nehesi Coates talk about the book The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America (from C-SPAN).
The Disturbing History of the Suburbs: a great video explainer of housing discrimination, featuring Adam Conover from Adam Ruins Everything. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

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0:00.0	So even if African Americans who were qualified got loans without discrimination,
0:06.8	this enormous wealth gap would still perpetuate the segregation.
0:10.9	What's up and welcome to In The Thick.
0:16.0	This is a podcast about politics, race and culture from a POC perspective.
0:20.2	I'm Maria Inu Hossan.
0:22.0	And I'm Holy Eurycalo-Barela.
0:23.6	We're talking about an issue that essentially we all live and we see and we talk about this today
0:29.5	with some pretty extraordinary experts.
0:32.3	Joining us from Emoryville, California is
0:34.4	Emmanuel Martinez.
0:35.4	He's a data reporter with the Center for Investigative Reporting
0:38.4	and PRX.
0:39.3	Hey Emmanuel, welcome to the show.
0:41.4	Hey, how's it going?
0:42.2	Thank you for having me on.
0:44.0	Good.
0:45.0	And joining us from across the country from Cape Cod, Massachusetts is Richard Rothstein.
0:49.0	He's a distinguished fellow at the Economic Policy Institute and he's author of the book The Color of Law.
0:55.0	Hey Richard.
0:56.0	Hello, how are you?
0:57.0	Good, good.
0:58.0	So we're talking about an issue that all of us see in our cities and our towns and we actually see it block by
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