Bernadette Atuahene

Gebundenes Buch

Plundered

How Racist Policies Undermine Black Homeownership in America

Beschreibung

Follows the lives of two Detroit grandfathers--one Black, the other white--and their grandchildren, while uncovering the effects of racist policies on their lives, how those policies take root, why they flourish, and who profits.

Autor

Bernadette Atuahene is a Harvard and Yale trained property law scholar whose work focuses on land and homes stolen from Black people. She currently holds the Duggan Chair at the University of Southern California Gould School of Law. Atuahene has served as a judicial clerk at the South African Constitutional Court, worked as a consultant for the South African Land Claims Commission, and practiced at a global law firm called Cleary Gottlieb. She is the author of We Want What’s Ours: Learning from South Africa’s Land Restitution Program, and she directed and produced an award-winning short documentary film about one South African family’s struggle to regain their land. Atuahene has won several accolades and has published extensively in both academic journals and news outlets such as the New York Times and LA Times.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Little Brown and Company
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Januar 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 155mm x 41mm
• Gewicht: 590g
• ISBN-13: 9780316572217
• ISBN-10: 0316572217
• Artikelnr.: 70700739