Confronting Our Legacy of Redlining

Event Details

Join Brightlane Learning as they host Mark Latta of the Advancing Racial Equity Speakers Bureau. Mark will present his talk, Confronting Our Legacy of Redlining.

Redlining, the practice of denying mortgages and home ownership on the
basis of race, was a national policy that formally segregated metropolitan
neighborhoods across the United States and targeted predominately Black
communities for disinvestment, dispossession, and denial of services. Although
formally outlawed, the legacy of redlining continues to impact neighborhoods
through poverty, violence, and a public health crisis of premature death. This
presentation defines redlining, discusses its historical origins, and identifies how
it continues to inscribe itself in urban geographies. Copies of original redlined
maps will be shared, and resources will be offered on challenging the legacy
of redlining.

Mark Latta (he/him), an assistant professor of English at Marian University,
developed the university’s community engaged learning program. He
collaborates extensively with The Learning Tree, an association of neighbors in
the Indianapolis Near Northwest that focuses on social change through
asset-based community development. His research and teaching interests
focus on the intersections between community engagement, unwinding racism
and colonialism, and the ways literacy is used to resist oppression and enact
futures. Latta gained his first experience teaching through an AmeriCorps term
of service at Pendleton Juvenile Correctional Facility and remains involved in
carceral education as a Women’s College Partnership faculty member.

Note: This event is part of Indiana Humanities’ Advancing Racial Equity Community Read program.