773 728 4030 SEARCH ASN PORTAL WEBMAIL PAYLOCITY HOME ABOUT PROGRAMS NEWS & EVENTS SCHOOL LOCATOR GED 40 YEARS CONTACT US Thursday, 30 May 2019 13:47 THE PLUNDER OF BLACK WEALTH IN CHICAGO FEATURED font size Print Email Rate this item 1 2 3 4 5 (0 votes) You are invited, along with select other Chicago civic and thought leaders, to a symposium on the modern roots of the devastating racial wealth gap of our time. Scholars have directed growing attention to the wealth gap as a crucial reason for the perpetuation of racial inequity in America. Chicago is among the foremost examples of this gap. Through painstaking review of thousands of documents, our research team tracked a key aspect of its origins in a home-buying arrangement that prevented African American families from accruing equity in their homes, and thus drained hitherto untold wealth from the city’s black communities. Our study not only quantifies the vast scale of the loss for the first time, but also exposes how this predatory system afflicted virtually every racially transitioning Chicago neighborhood during the 1950s and 1960s. An accompanying documentary dramatizes this history enabling viewers to munderstand what the staggering loss of hard-earned savings meant to black families and neighborhoods. Going much deeper than current cursory accounts of blockbusting and redlining, this symposium provides a compelling new narrative of how Chicago’s black communities came to be impoverished—a narrative with the power to expand our civic conversation about racial inequality and housing segregation. We convene this gathering to seek your feedback and insight about how to bring these findings and new narrative into our schools, media, and the wider Chicagoland community. DOWNLOAD REPORTS EVENT FLYER: The Plunder of Black Wealth in Chicago FULL REPORT: The Plunder of Black Wealth in Chicago Read 13977 times Last modified on Thursday, 30 May 2019 14:21 Published in ASN News More in this category: « The Cost Of Jobs by Chip Mitchell for WBEZ 91.5 Chicago Covid-19 Preparedness » back to top ASN EVENT REGISTRATION There are no up-coming events SEARCH NEWS & MEDIA NEWS CATEGORIES FEATURED ASN NEWS ASN VIDEOS EVENTS MEDIA PRESS RELEASES REPORTS ASN BUZZ ON TWITTER ASN BUZZ ON FACEBOOK MEDIA ARCHIVES November 2015 (1) May 2014 (1) December 2011 (1) EVENT ARCHIVES December 2019 (1) October 2019 (1) June 2019 (1) May 2019 (1) January 2019 (1) May 2018 (1) March 2018 (1) August 2017 (1) June 2016 (1) April 2016 (1) January 2016 (1) September 2015 (1) ASN TAG CLOUD after school basketball black lives matter chicago police class of 2016 class of 2019 comedy comedy show congratulation ctvn cycff employment festival film fundraiser graduation hearing illinois job jobs silent auction teen teen employment teen violence unemployment youth youthemployment youth employment youth jobs youth unemployment JOIN US! EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES LIKE US ON FACEBOOK FOLLOW US ON TWITTER NETWORK ON LINKEDIN ASN MAIN OFFICE 1807 W. Sunnyside Ave. Chicago, Illinois 60640 Telephone:+1 773 728 4030 Fax:+ 1 773 728 3335 ASN ADDED CHANCE 1122 N. Milwaukee Ave. Chicago, Illinois 60642 Telephone: +1 773 342 4243 Fax: + 1 773 342 4199 ASN PREP INSTITUTE (GED) 700 E. Oakwood Blvd., Room 520 Chicago, Illinois 60653 Telephone: +1 773 706 2602 Email: asnprep@asnchicago.org Alternative Schools Network © 2021 Share to Facebook Share to Twitter Share to LinkedIn Share to Email More AddThis Share options