Join us as we talk with Dr. Kirsten Delegard from Mapping Prejudice about racial housing covenants. Learn how racial covenants differ from and complement the practice of redlining; how they affected investment into neighborhoods; and why the specifically racial and racist nature of these documents matters to us today.
00:00 - Introduction
02:57 - Patreon
03:30 - What are racial covenants?
08:20 - Redlining vs. racial covenants
15:27 - Racial covenant contents
20:29 - How covenants affected neighborhood investment
27:23 - A story of racial violence
32:28 - The importance of diverse communities
38:16 - Racial covenants in the suburbs
42:22 - Racial covenants in urban areas
45:52 - Addressing the effects of covenants
51:26 - Work around the country
55:16 - How covenants ended…but are still in our deeds
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Links:
Mapping Prejudice - https://mappingprejudice.umn.edu/
Jim Crow of the North - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWQfDbbQv9E
Mapping Inequality - https://dsl.richmond.edu/panorama/redlining
Northside Forward - https://aalftc.org/northside-forward/
Related resources:
Just Deeds - https://justdeeds.org/
The Color of Law - https://wwnorton.com/books/the-color-of-law/
Ghost of a Chance podcast - https://www.startribune.com/ghost-of-a-chance/601197355
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