Kansas City 'Redlining' Conversation Coming Soon Plaza Public Library

Once again we're repeat our offer to dig up zombie J.C. Nichols and kill him again.

In the meantime, in an apropos location, here's an upcoming talk about Kansas City history that deserves a look . . .

A century ago, the tool was blatant redlining. Today, the mechanics of anti-Black housing segregation entail resistance to affordable housing, underinvestment in public transportation, and the over-policing of African American communities.

Those practices have rendered geographic lines “that divide America into racialized spaces of high and low opportunity,” Georgetown University’s Sheryll Cashin says. She calls it residential caste, a social and economic stratification cemented by discriminatory policies that trap Black people in impoverished neighborhoods while diverting funding to affluent, predom­in­antly white areas.

Cashin, the Carmack Waterhouse Professor of Law, Civil Rights, and Social Justice at Georgetown University and a former law clerk to the late Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, examines how our country got here and what it will take to end these corrosive exclusionary practices in a discussion drawing from her book White Space, Black Hood: Opportunity Hoarding and Segregation in the Age of Inequality.

The event coincides with a special exhibition, REDLINED: Cities, Suburbs, and Segregation, on display at the Johnson County Museum in Overland Park through January 7, 2023.

Read more via www.TonysKansasCity.com link . . .

Segregation, Redlining, and Opportunity Hoarding: A Case for Reform

In a discussion drawing from her book White Space, Black Hood: Opportunity Hoarding and Segregation in the Age of Inequality, Georgetown University law professor Sheryll Cashin examines what she calls America's system of modern-day residential caste - geographic lines cemented by discriminatory practices "that divide America into racialized spaces of high and low opportunity."