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Housing + Black Neighborhoods: Segregation, Broken Promises, and Wealth Extraction

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Beryl Satter, professor emerita of history at Rutgers University, will preview her forthcoming book Cash on the Block: The Broken Promise of Reinvestment in Black Urban Neighborhoods (May 2026). Satter traces the history of government and corporate involvement in the creation of the segregated Black urban neighborhood, as well as how private interests exploited efforts to improve conditions by diverting funding from poor urban neighborhoods. Introduced by Daniel Moak, Associate Professor of Government and author of From the New Deal to the War on Schools: Race, Inequality, and the Rise of the Punitive Education State (2022).

Speakers

  • Beryl Satter Professor Emerita of History

    Rutgers University

  • Daniel Moak Associate Professor of Government

    Connecticut College

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  • Connecticut College

    Connecticut College educates students to put the liberal arts into action as citizens in a global society. The College promotes an understanding of local, regional, national, and international peoples, groups, cultures, and issues, and encourages students to take a life-long interest in them.
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