Title A dream foreclosed : black America and the fight for a place to call home / Laura Gottesdiener ; foreword by Clarence Lusane. [Boundless electronic resource]

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Zuccotti Park Press, 2013.

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Contents	Foreword; Introduction; The Dream; One Hundred Acres of Houses; The House in the Wrong Part of Town; The Boy Who Was Fast; As Good as Rats; The Explosion; A Ten-Year Crime Spree; Lord, I Am Sinking; Where They Going To Put All These People?; Everything Was Everywhere; The Fight; We Are The . . .; Call Off the Dogs; I Will Not Go Back; Liberated; The Story of My Life; Epilogue.
Summary	"Real-life stories of how banks are ravaging the country--particularly African American communities--and how some families have joined together to fight back. The ongoing economic crisis has created one of the longest and largest mass displacements in U.S. history. While profiting from government bailouts, banks have evicted more than ten million Americans from their homes, destroying their life savings, their economic security and their dreams. Told through the eyes of four families, A Dream Foreclosed reveals the ongoing human tragedy of the crisis--and the spectacular possibilities that emerge when everyday people challenge the all-powerful corporations that the U.S. government considers 'too big to indict.'"-- Cover p. [4].
System Details	Requires Boundless App.
Chronological Term	2000-2099
Subject	Mortgages -- United States.
	Banks and banking -- United States -- 21st century.
	Foreclosure -- United States -- 21st century.
	African Americans -- Economic conditions -- 21st century.
	Home ownership -- United States -- 21st century.
	African Americans -- Housing.
	Housing -- United States -- Finance.
	Mortgage loans -- United States.
	Protest movements -- United States.
	African Americans -- Economic conditions.
	African Americans -- Housing.
	Banks and banking.
	Foreclosure.
	Home ownership.
	Mortgage loans.
	Mortgages.
	Protest movements.
	Housing -- Finance.
	United States -- History -- 21st century.
	United States.
Genre	Electronic books.
	History.
Added Author	Boundless (Digital media service)
ISBN	9781884519222 : $9.99
	1884519229 : $9.99

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