Sociology Lecture by Nora Taplin-Kaguru
Join us for a presentation by Nora Taplin-Kaguru on "Grasping for the American Dream: Racial Segregation, Social Mobility and Homeownership."
Contact Karen Sulpizio at ksulpizi@brynmawr.edu for the Zoom link.
African American homebuyers continue to pay more for and get less from homeownership. In "Grasping for the American Dream: Racial Segregation, Social Mobility and Homeownership" Nora Taplin-Kaguru explains the motivations for pursuing homeownership amongst working-class African Americans despite the structural conditions that make it less economically and socially rewarding for this group. Fervent adherence to the American Dream ideology amongst working-class African Americans makes them more vulnerable to exploitation in a structurally racist housing market. In this talk, Taplin-Kaguru discusses this book and her new work that builds on this research by investigating how multi-racial households navigate neighborhood racial segregation.
Nora Taplin-Kaguru (she/her) is an assistant professor of sociology at Earlham College.
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