Bernadette Atuahene, author of PLUNDERED- an in-person Boswell event

Boswell Book Company welcomes scholar and author Bernadette Atuahene for an evening featuring her new work, Plundered: How Racist Policies Undermine Black Homeownership in America. She will be in conversation with award-winning journalist Joy Powers.

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In the spirit of Evicted, a property law scholar uses the stories of two grandfathers—one white, one Black—who arrived in Detroit at the turn of the twentieth century to reveal how racist policies weaken Black families, widen the racial wealth gap, and derive profit from pain. Using a multigenerational narrative, Atuahene tells a riveting tale about racist policies, how they take root, why they flourish, and who profits.

"Plundered combines meticulous research and a powerful multi-generational narrative to lift the veil on the ruthless consequences of racist housing policies and expose faulty victim-blaming discourses. Clear. Accessible. Compelling."—Ibram X. Kendi, author of Stamped from the Beginning and How to Be an Antiracist

Bernadette Atuahene is a Harvard and Yale trained property law scholar whose work focuses on land and homes stolen from Black people. She currently holds the Duggan Chair at the University of Southern California Gould School of Law. She is the author of We Want What’s Ours: Learning from South Africa’s Land Restitution Program and has won several accolades and has published extensively in both academic journals and news outlets such as the New York Times and LA Times.

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