After Redlining: The Urban Reinvestment Movement in the Era of Financial Deregulation

Focusing on Chicago's West Side,After Redliningilluminates how urban activists were able to change banks' behavior to support investment in communities that they had once abandoned.

American banks, to their eternal discredit, long played a key role in disenfranchising nonwhite urbanites and, through redlining, blighting the very city neighborhoods that needed the most investment. Banks long showed little compunction in aiding and abetting blockbusting, discrimination, and outright theft from...