Pete Saunders

Forbes | blog | @petesaunders3

Pete Saunders writes for Forbes in addition to running his own blog and working as an urban planner. While much of his work focuses on the Rust Belt, by writing about race and gentrification, he inevitably addresses issues of redlining. As an introduction to his work, here are some links to pieces at Saunders’ blog as well as one of his columns for Forbes:

• Identifying Black Urbanists
• Retail Redlining Is Reshaping Communities
• Can Gentrification Management Work as Reparations?
• “The Machinery of Black Pariahdom” at the Metro Level
• Forbes: The Four Ways Wealth Spreads In Cities

Ta-Nehisi Coates

The Atlantic | @tanehisicoates

MacArthur Genius Fellow, writer for The Atlantic and currently one of the most important public intellectuals, Coates’ book Between the World and Me won a National Book Award for nonfiction. In my opinion, his article “The Case for Reparations” serves as one of the best introductions to an intersectional approach to urban policy and U.S. history.

• “The Case for Reparations,” The Atlantic (June 2014)
• Video: Ta-Nehisi Coates on Chicago’s Scam Housing Loans (3:29 min)

General

• Camila Domonoske, NPR: Interactive Redlining Map Zooms In On America’s History Of Discrimination (October 19, 2016)
• Alexis C. Madrigal, “The Racist Housing Policy That Made Your Neighborhood,” The Atlantic (May 22, 2014).
• William J. Collins and Robert A. Margo, “Race and Home Ownership: A Century-Long View,” Explorations in Economic History 38, vol. 1 (2001): 68-92.