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).

This event will be held at Connecticut College in Oliva Hall, located in the Cummings Art Center.

This event is part of "We Live Here New London," an exhibit examining the history and present-day realities of the housing crisis in America, presented by Connecticut College and the Center for Housing Opportunity Eastern Connecticut.

Speakers

Beryl Satter Professor Emerita of History

Rutgers University
Daniel Moak Associate Professor of Government

Connecticut College

Beryl Satter, Professor Emerita of History, Rutgers University

Beryl Satter is the author of "Family Properties: Race, Real Estate, and the Exploitation of Black Urban America". She was raised in Chicago, Skokie, and Evanston, Illinois, and is a graduate of the Harvard Divinity School and the Yale American Studies program. For her work in progress on "Family Properties", Satter received a J. Anthony Lukas citation.

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Daniel Moak, Associate Professor of Government at Connecticut College

Daniel Moak earned his Ph.D. in political science from the University of Pennsylvania in 2016. He is interested in American politics, race and ethnic politics, public policy, and public law. His work examines how social policy developments have shaped the incorporation of different groups, the scope of the broader social welfare state, the experience of citizenship, and the conceptualization of democracy in the United States. He is particularly interested in the ways in which race has been used in the United States to separate, segregate, and channel individuals and groups into different lanes of civic worth and opportunity.

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

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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.