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""At a time when access to home ownership seems out of reach for so many, Plundered makes clear that this sad state of affairs is the result of a series of systemic failures--much of it aided by government policies. In clear, trenchant prose, Atuahene tells us how we got here and the remedies that are needed if we are to move forward. Plundered is a clear-eyed account of the past and a roadmap for a more equitable future.""--Melissa Murray, New York Times bestselling co-author of The Trump Indictments and Frederick I. and Grace Stokes Professor of Law at New York University ""In this important and timely book, one of the world's leading experts on property rights brings to light a secret hidden in plain sight; the bureaucratic machinery that maintains and widens the racial wealth gap in our country. Bernadette Atuahene tells this story across generations, following the decedents of two sharecroppers who settled in Detroit, one white and one black, revealing how racist tax policies fill government coffers while taking bread out of the mouths of the poor. Plundered puts flesh on the statistics and calls our attention to a problem few people knew to look for, revealing the routine nature of what Atuahene aptly calls bureaucratic violence. I won't think of property tax policy or the functions of government in the same way again.""--Reuben Jonathan Miller, MacArthur fellow and author of Halfway Home: Race, Punishment and the Afterlife of Mass Incarceration

"""At a time when access to home ownership seems out of reach for so many, Plundered makes clear that this sad state of affairs is the result of a series of systemic failures--much of it aided by government policies. In clear, trenchant prose, Atuahene tells us how we got here and the remedies that are needed if we are to move forward. Plundered is a clear-eyed account of the past and a roadmap for a more equitable future.""--Melissa Murray, Frederick I. and Grace Stokes Professor of Law at New York University"

"""At a time when access to home ownership seems out of reach for so many, Plundered makes clear that this sad state of affairs is the result of a series of systemic failures--much of it aided by government policies. In clear, trenchant prose, Atuahene tells us how we got here and the remedies that are needed if we are to move forward. Plundered is a clear-eyed account of the past and a roadmap for a more equitable future.""--Melissa Murray, New York Times bestselling co-author of The Trump Indictments and Frederick I. and Grace Stokes Professor of Law at New York University ""In this important and timely book, one of the world's leading experts on property rights brings to light a secret hidden in plain sight; the bureaucratic machinery that maintains and widens the racial wealth gap in our country. Bernadette Atuahene tells this story across generations, following the decedents of two sharecroppers who settled in Detroit, one white and one black, revealing how racist tax policies fill government coffers while taking bread out of the mouths of the poor. Plundered puts flesh on the statistics and calls our attention to a problem few people knew to look for, revealing the routine nature of what Atuahene aptly calls bureaucratic violence. I won't think of property tax policy or the functions of government in the same way again.""--Reuben Jonathan Miller, MacArthur fellow and author of Halfway Home: Race, Punishment and the Afterlife of Mass Incarceration"

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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. Atuahene has served as a judicial clerk at the South African Constitutional Court, worked as a consultant for the South African Land Claims Commission, and practiced at a global law firm called Cleary Gottlieb. She is the author of We Want What's Ours: Learning from South Africa's Land Restitution Program, and she directed and produced an award-winning short documentary film about one South African family's struggle to regain their land. Atuahene 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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