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96 U. Det. Mercy L. Rev. 155 (2018-2019)
The Invisible Hands of Structural Racism in Housing: Our Hands, Our Responsibility

handle is hein.journals/udetmr96 and id is 167 raw text is: The Invisible Hands of Structural Racism in Housing: Our Hands, Our Responsibility PALMA JOY STRAND* They are led by an invisible hand... Adam Smith Psychologist Beverly Daniel Tatum, author of the keystone work on racial identity development, defines racism as a system of advantage based on race.2 Recently, as I read the revised 2017 20th anniversary edition of Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?, I noticed that while Tatum defines and uses the word racism throughout the book, she rarely uses the term racist. When she does use the term, it is generally used as an adjective rather than a noun. This observation prompted some discussion in my 2040 Initiative Seminar, the class with which I was reading Tatum. The Seminar explores demographic changes in the nation, including the shift from a majority of the population being non-Hispanic White to a majority being people of *Professor of Law, Negotiation and Conflict Resolution (NCR) Program, and Director, 2040 Initiative, Department of Interdisciplinary Studies, Creighton University Graduate School. B.S. Stanford University (1978); J.D. Stanford Law School (1984); LL.M. Georgetown University Law Center (2006). Thanks to Florise Neville-Ewell and the other participants of the Housing Symposium: HUD's Past, Present and Future held at the University of Detroit Mercy Law School in November 2017 and to Andrea Boyack, Janet Thompson Jackson, and Michelle Ewert and the participants of the Fair Housing and Financial Markets Diversity Symposium held at the Washburn University School of Law in March 2018 for wide-ranging discussions that stimulated the ideas presented in this essay. I also want to recognize the Omaha fair housing and racial equity work of Patricia Evans, Andy Wessel, Mark Stursma, Cynthia Lindenmeyer, and A'Jamal-Rashad Byndon; their work is inspiring - as is the work of many other community members and public officials here and across the nation. Finally, I also very much appreciate the members of the 2017 GOAL Emerging Perspectives class and of the Spring 2018 Seminar in Contemporary Topics: Complex Communities of Exclusion and Inclusion, who valiantly grappled with Iris Marion Young, as well as my colleague Greg O'Meara, SJ, with whom I co-taught the latter and who kindly took the time to read this essay. 1. ADAM SMITH, THE THEORY OF MORAL SENTIMENTS 165 (6th ed. 2005). 2. BEVERLY DANIEL TATUM, WHY ARE ALL THE BLACK KIls SITTING TOGETHER IN THE CAFETERIA? (rev. ed. 2017).

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