Whose Land Is This? Real Estate Discrimination and the American Income Gap

Event Details

Part of a new American Forum special series in Spring 2015

What Now? Dialogues on Race and Turmoil in America

Television Broadcast:   April 5, 2015

N.D.B. CONNOLLY, assistant professor of history at Johns Hopkins University, studies the history of racial segregation; West Indian immigration to the U.S.; and the relationship between capitalism, community, and real estate development. In addition to his many media appearances, Connolly is the author of A World More Concrete: Real Estate and the Remaking of Jim Crow South Florida. In A World More Concrete, Connolly analyzes nearly 80 years of political and land transactions in South Florida to reveal how real estate and redevelopment created and preserved metropolitan growth and racial peace under white supremacy. A World More Concrete argues that black and white landlords, entrepreneurs, and liberal community leaders used tenements and repeated land dispossession to take advantage of the poor and generate remarkable wealth.