{"product_id":"family-properties-race-real-estate-and-the-exploitation-of-black-america-10th-anniversary-edition-paperback","title":"Family Properties: Race, Real Estate, and the Exploitation of Black America (10th Anniversary Edition) - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eBeryl Satter\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Beryl Satter's \u003ci\u003eFamily Properties\u003c\/i\u003e is really an incredible book. It is, by far, the best book I've ever read on the relationship between blacks and Jews. That's because it hones in on the relationship between one specific black community and one specific Jewish community and thus revels in the particular humanity of all its actors.\" --Ta-Nehisi Coates, \u003ci\u003eThe Atlantic\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePart family story and part urban history, a landmark investigation of segregation and urban decay in Chicago -- and cities across the nation\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe \"promised land\" for thousands of Southern blacks, postwar Chicago quickly became the most segregated city in the North, the site of the nation's worst ghettos and the target of Martin Luther King Jr.'s first campaign beyond the South. In this powerful book, Beryl Satter identifies the true causes of the city's black slums and the ruin of urban neighborhoods throughout the country: not, as some have argued, black pathology, the culture of poverty, or white flight, but a widespread and institutionalized system of legal and financial exploitation. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn Satter's riveting account of a city in crisis, unscrupulous lawyers, slumlords, and speculators are pitched against religious reformers, community organizers, and an impassioned attorney who launched a crusade against the profiteers--the author's father, Mark J. Satter. At the heart of the struggle stand the black migrants who, having left the South with its legacy of sharecropping, suddenly find themselves caught in a new kind of debt peonage. Satter shows the interlocking forces at work in their oppression: the discriminatory practices of the banking industry; the federal policies that created the country's shameful \"dual housing market\"; the economic anxieties that fueled white violence; and the tempting profits to be made by preying on the city's most vulnerable population. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eFamily Properties: Race, Real Estate, and the Exploitation of Black Urban America\u003c\/i\u003e is a monumental work of history, this tale of racism and real estate, politics and finance, will forever change our understanding of the forces that transformed urban America. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Gripping . . . This painstaking portrayal of the human costs of financial racism is the most important book yet written on the black freedom struggle in the urban North.\"--David Garrow, \u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBeryl Satter\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003eEach Mind a Kingdom\u003c\/i\u003e and the chair of the Department of History at Rutgers University in Newark. She was raised in Chicago, Skokie, and Evanston, Illinois, and is a graduate of the Harvard Divinity School and the Yale American Studies program. For her work in progress on Family Properties, Satter received a J. Anthony Lukas citation. She lives in New York City.\u003c\/p\u003e\n        \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 544\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.6 x 8.2 x 5.2 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 27, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42695426310207,"sku":"9781250812117","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/8b608a6de8dbe713ea869dfe1200d5ae.webp?v=1765003766","url":"https:\/\/dhl-adrianne.myshopify.com\/products\/family-properties-race-real-estate-and-the-exploitation-of-black-america-10th-anniversary-edition-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}