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Race for Profit with Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

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The Problem of Racial Liberals

i want to talk about the programme's diiterato an, returning to romney. Romney embodied the trajectory from post war liberalism to questioning whether government had any role in ending poverty. In trying to expand home ownership to include black property owners, racial liberals upheld the market as a space impervious to race. How did that ultimately, when it all failed, almost logically, require the pathologiation of black people and black women in particular? The problem was exclusion, not an interrogation of the institutions themselves.

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