This podcast will explore ways that shelter and space have been racialized, commodified, and systemically denied throughout the history of the United States. We will investigate the politics of housing segregation as it is enacted through settler-colonial dispossession, redlining, gentrification, exposure to environmental hazards, and disparate access to necessary resources such as food and water.
Cited books:
The Color of Law by Richard Rothstein
Extreme Cities by Ashley Dawson
A Different Mirror by Ronald Takaki
Slave Patrols by Sally Hadden
Other recommended reading:
Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde
Assata: An Autobiography by Assata Shakur
Lectures on Liberation by Angela Davis.
For more about the history of housing segregation in the Bay Area specifically, the Haas study “Roots, Race, and Place,” available online, is a good place to start.
Links to donate to the orgs we mentioned:
People’s Breakfast Oakland - Venmo @Peoples-Programs
California St. Collective - Venmo @CalStCollective
Moms 4 Housing - https://moms4housing.org
Sogorea Te’ Land Trust - https://sogoreate-landtrust.org