ABOUT THIS EPISODE
Join us as we talk with Dr. Kirsten Delegard from Mapping Prejudice about racial housing covenants. Learn how racial covenants differ from and complement the practice of redlining; how they affected investment into neighborhoods; and why the specifically racial and racist nature of these documents matters to us today.
00:00 - Introduction
02:57 - Patreon
03:30 - What are racial covenants?
08:20 - Redlining vs. racial covenants
15:27 - Racial covenant contents
20:29 - How covenants affected neighborhood investment
27:23 - A story of racial violence
32:28 - The importance of diverse communities
38:16 - Racial covenants in the suburbs
42:22 - Racial covenants in urban areas
45:52 - Addressing the effects of covenants
51:26 - Work around the country
55:16 - How covenants ended…but are still in our deeds
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Links:
Mapping Prejudice - https://mappingprejudice.umn.edu/
Jim Crow of the North - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWQfDbbQv9E
Mapping Inequality - https://dsl.richmond.edu/panorama/redlining
Northside Forward - https://aalftc.org/northside-forward/
Related resources:
Just Deeds - https://justdeeds.org/
The Color of Law - https://wwnorton.com/books/the-color-of-law/
Ghost of a Chance podcast - https://www.startribune.com/ghost-of-a-chance/601197355
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