White Space, Black Hood

By Sheryll Cashin,

Book cover of White Space, Black Hood: Opportunity Hoarding and Segregation in the Age of Inequality

Book description

A 2021 C. Wright Mills Award Finalist

Shows how government created “ghettos” and affluent white space and entrenched a system of American residential caste that is the linchpin of US inequality—and issues a call for abolition.

The iconic Black hood, like slavery and Jim Crow, is a peculiar American institution…

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1 author picked White Space, Black Hood as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

Sheryll Cashin has impressed me ever since we were law school classmates. Now a Georgetown Law Professor, she is not only a brilliant analyst but also a vivid storyteller. 

She shows how the high levels of racial and economic segregation that many take for granted is not at all natural and do profound harm to Americans of all backgrounds.

From Richard's list on government housing rules in America.

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