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Wartime production led to environmental and social injustices, polluting land and bodies in ways that continue to shape public policy and race relations.

Service members were attacked, discredited, and shortchanged on GI benefits—with lasting implications.

An annotated collection of resources from the Bunk archive that help explain the long history of housing discrimination.

Visualizing the legacy of slavery and redlining, 1860 to the present.

The lack of investment in neighborhoods has resulted in communities of color living in areas far hotter than those of their white neighbors.

Federal housing policies contributed to the segregation of American cities in the twentieth century. But it was private interests that led the way.

"Urban Legends: The South Bronx in Representation and Ruin" is a vibrant cultural history that looks beyond pervasive narratives of cultural renaissance and urban neglect.

Infrastructure has a long history of cloaking racism and preventing justice.

The Great Migration in the 20th century changed the face of America. For the past few decades, it's been reversing.

Sheryll Cashin’s “White Space, Black Hood” shows how economic discrimination combines with racial injustice in America’s housing policy.

Eighty years after a segregation wall rose in Detroit, America remains divided. That's not an accident.

Long after the end of explicit discrimination in the housing market, the federal government continued to manage risk for capital, perpetuating inequality.

Redlining itself cannot explain this persistence of inequality in America's cities.

Decades of discrimination in Fresno laid the groundwork for a housing crisis today.

Connecting present-day environmental inequalities to redlining policies of the 1930s.

A brief history on land ownership, valuation and development in the City of Richmond and the maps used to destroy black communities.

How Detroit cops and courts steer segregation and drive incarceration.

In "Race for Profit," Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor walks us through the ways racist housing policy survived the abolition of redlining.

How Better Homes in America—a collaboration between Herbert Hoover and the editor of a conservative women’s magazine—promoted idealized whiteness.

City planner John B. Williams — and the photographic archive he commissioned — give us the opportunity to complicate received stories of failed urban renewal.