Book Release: Plundered: How Racist Policies Undermine Black Homeownership in America

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Plundered Book Launch Flyer

All members of the Chicago-Kent community are invited to an event celebrating the release of former Chicago-Kent professor Bernadette Atuahene's book, Plundered: How Racist Policies Undermine Black Homeownership in America (Hatchette 2025).

"By following the lives of two grandfathers who migrated to Detroit at the turn of the twentieth century to work at Ford Motor Company—one Black the other white—and their grandchildren," reads the book jacket, "Atuahene tells a riveting, braided tale about racist policies, how they take root, why they advance and flourish, and who profits."

On February 2, 2025, Atuahene will be joined by special guests, Reuben Miller, MacArthur Genius fellow and author of Halfway Home: Race, Punishment, and the Afterlife of Mass Incarceration; and Karen Freeman-Wilson, President & CEO of the Chicago Urban League and former mayor of Gary, Indiana, to discuss the book and government policies that can widen the racial wealth gap.