@article{194a92265f6745b7bfa76ff24685c842,
title = "Back Story to the Neoliberal Moment: Race Taxes and the Political Economy of Black Urban Housing in the 1960s",
abstract = "In scholarship on race and housing, Black poverty is used to explain the overrepresentation of African Americans in substandard housing. This practice has masked how many African Americans were actually able to afford comparable homes to whites in the housing market, but the existence of a {"}dual housing{"} market created a captive Black market where more was paid for inferior housing. Blacks are estimated to have paid tens of thousands of dollars more for substandard housing-payments popularly known in Black communities as {"}race taxes.{"} This practice would be counted as a factor in Black rebellions in the 1960s.",
keywords = "{"}dual housing{"}, housing, political economy, poverty, segregation",
author = "Taylor, {Keeanga Yamahtta}",
note = "Funding Information: Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor is a doctoral candidate in the department of African American Studies at Northwestern University. Her dissertation titled, Race for Profit: The Political Economy of Black Homeownership in the 1970s explores the use of public–private partnerships in the promotion of single-family home ownership in Black communities in theaftermath of the urban rebellions in the 1960s. Taylor is a Northwestern University Presidential Fellow, the university{\textquoteright}s most prestigious award for graduate students. She is also a recipient of the Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellowship. Taylor{\textquoteright}s work has been published in Ms. Magazine, The Chronicle of Higher Education, CounterPunch, The Black Commentator, Black Agenda Report, Gaper{\textquoteright}s Block, and New Politics among others.",
year = "2012",
doi = "10.1080/10999949.2012.764836",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "14",
pages = "185--206",
journal = "Souls",
issn = "1099-9949",
publisher = "Taylor and Francis Ltd.",
number = "3-4",
}