
Derek Handley on Identifying Housing Discrimination
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Derek Handley on understanding historical patterns of racist housing discrimination.
UW-Milwaukee English professor Derek Handley explains how understanding historical patterns of racist housing discrimination can help spotlight contemporary practices that have similar impacts.
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Derek Handley on Identifying Housing Discrimination
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UW-Milwaukee English professor Derek Handley explains how understanding historical patterns of racist housing discrimination can help spotlight contemporary practices that have similar impacts.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorship>> One of the things I tell my students is that we have to be very careful not to demonize or romanticize, whether certain groups of people or individuals.
I think what I want folks to learn is that things were done wrong in the past.
There was discrimination, there was racism, right here in Wisconsin, right here in Milwaukee County.
And we gotta make sure these things don't happen again.
So I don't want anybody to feel bad about what happened in the past, but I want them to feel empowered and inspired moving forward to be an agent of change.
An agent to make difference.
So when they see or perhaps observe something similar that they'll stand up and say, this is not right.
We have to change that.
And we have to think about that.
Because some of these issues, unfortunately, are not, are still present.
When you think about African Americans who are perhaps trying to sell their homes, and they have to, you know, take their pictures down off the walls, and have their white friends stand in the house so it can be appraised at a higher rate.
That hearkens right back to Zeddie Hyler having to have his white friend buy the property and then sell it back to Hyler.
So these are conversations, these are situations perhaps still on a smaller scale, but they're still happening.
So for those who are interacting with this project, be a changemaker.
Sabrina Madison on Cultivating Wealth in Black Communities
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Clip: 10/19/2023 | 2m 12s | Sabrina Madison on generating health and ownership among Wisconsin's Black residents. (2m 12s)
Elmer Moore, Jr. on Stress, Safety and Generational Outcomes
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Clip: 10/18/2023 | 2m 17s | Elmer Moore, Jr. on investing in more secure home environments and trajectories of lives. (2m 17s)
Kurt Paulsen on Long-Term Impacts of Racist Housing Policies
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Clip: 10/12/2023 | 1m 48s | Kurt Paulsen on discrimination and homeownership rates of Black families in Wisconsin. (1m 48s)
Theresa Garrison on Witnessing 'Urban Renewal' in Milwaukee
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Clip: 10/11/2023 | 1m 50s | Theresa Garrison on memories of growing up in a neighborhood razed by "urban renewal." (1m 50s)
Anne Bonds on How Racially Restrictive Covenants Emerged
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Clip: 10/4/2023 | 2m 44s | Anne Bonds on how racially restrictive covenants shaped housing segregation. (2m 44s)
Covenants, Redlining and Black Homeownership in Wisconsin
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Clip: 10/3/2023 | 7m 30s | Racially restrictive covenants and redlining discrimination created segregated housing. (7m 30s)
Impacts of Housing Discrimination on Economic Opportunity
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Clip: 10/1/2023 | 7m 3s | Housing discrimination has diminished opportunity for Black Wisconsinites to build wealth. (7m 3s)
What 'Urban Renewal' Meant for Milwaukee's Black Residents
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Clip: 10/1/2023 | 6m 48s | Urban renewal projects sparked the open housing movement to end housing discrimination. (6m 48s)
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