Marcia Chatelain

Marcia Chatelain is the author of the Pulitzer Prize–winning Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America and South Side Girls: Growing Up in the Great Migration. She serves as the Penn Presidential Compact Professor of Africana Studies at the University of Pennsylvania.

Abandoned buildings in The Bronx.

The Persistence of American Poverty The Persistence of American Poverty

“We could afford to end poverty,” Matthew Desmond tells us. That we don’t is a choice.

Aug 21, 2023 / Books & the Arts / Marcia Chatelain

How Federal Housing Programs Failed Black America

How Federal Housing Programs Failed Black America How Federal Housing Programs Failed Black America

In Race for Profit, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor shows how even those housing policies that sought to create more Black homeowners were stymied by racism and a determination to shr...

Aug 25, 2020 / Books & the Arts / Marcia Chatelain

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