The real estate industry has excluded Black women from homeownership, reinforcing racial segregation, Sociologist Robin Bartram writes.
Robin Bartram
Robin Bartram is an assistant professor of sociology at Tulane University. In her book, "Stacked Decks," Bartram shows how building code inspectors in Chicago assess built environments to make inferences about their inhabitants. These assessments often cause them to act in unexpected ways, by protecting some of the city’s most precarious residents. The fact that urban inequality prevails in spite of these actions reveals the contours of persistent inequality.