Author Meets Critics: Chloe Thurston’s ‘At the Boundaries of Homeownership’

Session Submission Type: Author meet critics

Session Description

This book panel will center on Chloe Thurston’s “At the Boundaries of Homeownership: Credit, Discrimination, and the American State.” This book represents a major contribution to the study of race, income inequality, and the American welfare state. Thurston’s book peels back the layers of homeownership to reveal the interworking’s of federal government policies. In addition, “At the Boundaries of Homeownership” provides powerful case studies of boundary groups challenging access to federal programs on grounds of racial, gender and income discrimination. Through organizing and activism, these boundary groups transformed laws and private practices governing determinations of credit-worthiness.

Thurston’s book breaks new ground in political science and speaks to new frontiers in the study of urban politics, statebuilidng, and racial capitalism.

Sub Unit

• DIVISION 30: Urban and Local Politics

Chair

• Megan Ming Francis University of Washington

Presenters

• Dara Z. Strolovitch Princeton University

• Desmond King University of Oxford

• Vesla Mae Weaver Johns Hopkins University

• Kimberley S. Johnson New York University

• Chloe Thurston Northwestern University