White Space, Black Hood

While extensively documented and amply footnoted, Cashin's survey remains compelling and accessible to a general readership. A resonant, important argument that White supremacy and racial division poison life in our cities. -Kirkus Reviews In this brilliant and nuanced new volume, Sheryll Cashin exposes the ways in which American policy decisions, from the early twentieth century to the present, have constructed a 'residential caste system' resulting in the entrapment of Black people in high-poverty neighborhoods while 'overinvesting in affluent white spaces.' Riveting and beautifully written, White Space, Black Hood convinces the reader of the centrality of geography in economic and social inequality. Cashin's meticulously researched study will provide critically important information for scholars while being accessible to all readers. -Henry Louis Gates, Jr. For anyone wondering if we have castes in the United States, White Space, Black Hood is the book for you. In pulling back the curtain on how residential segregation creates caste for some and economic profit for others, Cashin offers a clear-eyed view of the precarity of our present and provides a path toward a more equitable future. A scholar of segregation who has devoted her career to thinking about how we can find community across divides of all kinds, Cashin has written a book you will most definitely want to read. -Noliwe Rooks, author of Cutting School: The Segrenomics of American Education Sheryll Cashin is one of the most important civil rights scholars of our time and White Space, Black Hood is her magnum opus, the searing culmination of decades of research about the devastating consequences of segregation. Cashin builds on Michelle Alexander's The New Jim Crow and Isabel Wilkerson's Caste to take down liberal and conservative orthodoxies on race. (White) America is not ready for this book. -Paul Butler, author of Chokehold: Policing Black Men We need Sheryll Cashin's scholarship to make sense of the racial inequalities that mar every urban community, and we need her vision to guide us to a more equal society. Illuminating, compassionate, and engrossing, White Space, Black Hood is an instant classic. -Heather McGhee, author of The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together If you want to understand how to dismantle structures and policies that undermine Black lives, this is the book. With analytical precision, Sheryll Cashin masterfully tells the story of how Black neighborhoods have been gutted by the system of housing anti-Blackness. Cashin ends with a call for abolition and repair that moves our nation closer to the destruction of anti-Black institutions and the healing of Black neighborhoods. White Space, Black Hood is clear, compelling, and demands our attention. -Bettina L. Love, author of We Want to Do More Than Survive