Living the Legacy

Articles and Blogs:

• Rebecca Denne, “Inequality Remade: Residential Segregation, Indianapolis Public Schools, and Forced Busing,” Indiana History Blog (Feb 16, 2017).
• Invisible Indianapolis: Race, Heritage and Community Memory in the Circle City.
• Paul Mullins, “Suburbanization and the Color Line Along Grandview Drive,” Invisible Indianapolis (June 29, 2017).
• Wildstyle Paschall,  , “Indiana Avenue: The Ethnic Cleansing of Black Indianapolis,” New America Indianapolis (Feb 4, 2020). 
• Ryan T. Schwier, “Historical Injustice in the Urban Environment: The Ecological Implications of Residential Segregation in Indianapolis” Indiana Legal Archive.
• Troy Washington, “Indianapolis has 2nd Highest Number of Evictions in U.S.,” WRTV (Nov. 8, 2019).
• Resources on fair lending practices in Indianapolis and current litigation can be found on the “lending” page of the Fair Housing Center of Central Indiana.

Books, Reports, Theses and Exhibitions:

• Rachel Drenovsky, The Issue Now is Open Occupancy: The Struggle for Fair Housing in Indianapolis, 1890 to 1968, IUPUI (2001).
• Kyle Huskins, Moving On Up: The Experience of Post World War II African American of Indianapolis, IUPUI (March 2019)
• Richard B. Pierce, Polite Protest: The Political Economy of Race in Indianapolis, 1920-1970, 2005
• LaShawnda Crowe Storm, RedLINES Project (This art project explores how racial segregation manifested in food insecurities for redlined neighborhoods in Indianapolis.)
• Report, “The Price of Progress: IUPUI, the Color Line, & Urban Displacement”
• Report, Affordable Housing and Why it Matters? (SAVI, 2016)

Videos:

•  Kheprw Institute’s 2016-2017 “From the Ground Up” discussions on people-centered community development.
• City of Indianapolis’s People’s Planning Academy “Make Indy More Inclusive” presentation.
• Fair Housing Center of Central Indiana, History of Redlining Video and more resources available on the “Lending” page.
• Central Indiana Realtist Association videos.
• Kheprw Institute’s 2019 Creating the Future program series.

• Digital Collections from the Indiana Historical Society
• The Federal Housing Administration’s Underwriting Manual
• Home Owners’ Loan Corporation Redlining Maps and “Area Description” forms available through the Mapping Inequalities project. (Explore by clicking on each city or through the dataset page.)

We recommend checking out some of these resources from your local library, or if you would like to purchase a copy for yourself, supporting a local bookseller in your community.

• N.D.B. Connolly, A World More Concrete: Real Estate and the Remaking of Jim Crow South Florida, 2014
• Aaron Glantz, Homewreckers: How a Gang of Wall Street Kingpins, Hedge Fund Magnates, Crooked Banks, and Vulture Capitalists Suckered Millions Out of Their Homes and Demolished the American Dream, 2019
• Kevin Fox Gotham, “Urban Space, Restrictive Covenants, and the Origins of Racial Residential Segregation in a US City, 1900-1950,” International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 24(3):616-633, 2000.
• Sonia A. Hirt, Zoned in the USA: The Origins and Implications of American Land-Use Regulation, 2014
• Michael W. Hudson, The Monster: How a Gang of Predatory Lenders and Wall Street Bankers Fleeced America – and Spawned a Global Crisis, 2011
• Louis Hyman, Debtor Nation: The History of America in Red Ink, 2011
• Kenneth T. Jackson, Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States, 1985.
• Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, 1961
• George Lipsitz, The Progressive Investment in Whiteness: How White People profit from Identity Politics, 2006.
• Amy Maria Kenyon, Dreaming Suburbia: Detroit and the Production of Postwar Space and Culture, 2004
• Richard B. Pierce, Polite Protest: The Political Economy of Race in Indianapolis, 1920-1970, 2005
• Ashanté M. Reese, Black Food Geographies: Race, Self-Reliance, and Food Access in Washington, D.C., 2019
• Richard Rothstein, The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America, 2017  
• Ted Rutland, Displacing Blackness: Planning Power, and Race in Twentieth-Century Halifax, 2018
• Samuel Stein, Capital City: Gentrification and the Real Estate State, 2019
• Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership, 2019
• Chloe N. Thurston, At the Boundaries of Homeownership: Credit, Discrimination, and the American State, 2018
• Andrew Wiese, Places of their Own: African American Suburbanization in the 20th Century, 2005 

• Meg Anderson, “Racist Housing Practices from the 1930s Linked to Hotter Neighborhoods Today,” NPR, Jan 14, 2020.
• Ross Baird, Bruce Katz, Jihae Lee, and Daniel Palmer, “Towards a New System of Community Wealth,” Drexel University (2019).
• Kriston Capps, “How the Fair Housing Act Failed Black Homeowners,” CityLab (April 11, 2018). 
• Ann Choi, Keith Herbert, Olivia Winslow, and Arthur Browne, “Long Island Divided,” Newsday (Nov 17, 2019).
• Ta-Nehisi Coats, “The Case for Reparations,” The Atlantic (June 2014).
• Aaron Glantz and Emmanuel Martinez, “Keep Out: For People of Color, Banks are Shutting the Door to Homeownership,” Reveal (The Center for Investigative Reporting), (Feb 15, 2018). 
• Solomon Greene, Graham MacDonald, Olivia Arena, Tanaya Srini, Ruth Gourevitch, Richard Ezike, and Alena Stern, “Technology and Equity in Cities: Emerging Challenges and Opportunities,” Urban Institute (Nov 2019). 
•  Sean Illing, “The Sordid History of Housing Discrimination in America,” Vox (May 5, 2020).
• Richard D. Kahlenberg, “An Economic Fair Housing Act,” The Century Foundation, (Aug 3, 2017).
• Roshanak Mehdipanah, Jessica Ramirez, Shanti Abedin, and Sherrill F. Brown, “What Are the Connections between Housing Discrimination and Health?” Urban Institute, 2018.
• National Fair Housing Alliance, “Defending Against Unprecedented Attacks on Fair Housing: 2019 Fair Housing Trends Report,” 2019.
• Julie Nelson and Lisa Brooks, “Racial Equity Toolkit: An Opportunity to Operationalize Equity,” Government Alliance on Race & Equity (Dec 2016).
• Vann R. Newkirk II, “The Great Land Robbery: The Shameful Story of How 1 Million Black Families Have Been Ripped from their Farms,” The Atlantic (Sep 29, 2019).
• Andre M. Perry and David Harshbarger, “America’s Formerly Redlined Neighborhoods have Changed, and So Must Solutions to Rectify Them,” Brookings (Oct 14, 2019).
• Patrick Sisson, “The Fair Housing Act: An Explainer,” Curbed (Apr 11, 2017).
• Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, “When the Dream of Owning a Home Became a Nightmare,” The New York Times (Oct 19, 2019). 
• Undesigning the Redline Exhibition