Whiteness as property: Predatory lending and the reproduction of racialized inequality

Critical Sociology

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 27-45

  Beeman, Angie ^a   Glasberg, Davita Silfen ^b   Casey, Colleen ^c  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

housing; predatory lending; racial inequality; sub prime lending; whiteness as property

Indexed keywords

EID: 78650147219     PISSN: 08969205     EISSN: 15691632     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0896920510378762     Document Type: Article

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