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

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Connecticut College

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

Hosted By Center for Housing Opportunity Eastern Connecticut
with Connecticut College
Topic Housing Affordability
Region Eastern CT

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Connecticut College

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