Raised for Profit

Tianna Taylor's work traces how public-private partnerships and housing policies have been used to shape urban markets and marginalize communities, showing continuities from New Deal-era redlining into later decades.

Taylor documents how government and private actors collaborated to code and value neighborhoods in racially discriminatory ways, with long-term effects on investment and residential patterns.

Her research highlights the political and economic mechanisms that reproduce racialized spatial inequality, including state-enabled market creation and disinvestment.

By situating mid-20th-century practices within broader political economy trends, the book offers insights into contemporary urban redevelopment and exclusion.

The work is influential for scholars examining the persistence of structural racism in housing and urban policy.