'Troubled Assets': The Financial Emergency and Racialized Risk

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 773-790

  Ashton, Philip ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Credit risk; Financial crisis; Financial regulation; Racialization; Subprime mortgage market; USA

Indexed keywords

BANKING; CREDIT PROVISION; FINANCIAL CRISIS; FINANCIAL MARKET; MORTGAGE LENDING; POLITICAL ECONOMY; RACISM; RISK ASSESSMENT; URBAN POLITICS;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 84862869672     PISSN: 03091317     EISSN: 14682427     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-2427.2011.01077.x     Document Type: Article

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