Eminent domain takings disproportionately target minority neighborhoods today

Evidence

Eminent domain, which stripped property away from black Americans, did not end with the twentieth century. An analysis of 2000 census data revealed that “eminent domain project areas include a significantly greater percentage of minority residents (58%).” In 2010 Columbia University used eminent domain to acquire property “in the predominantly black Manhattanville neighborhood.” Not-for-profit colleges and universities ensconced within black and brown communities are exempt from paying property taxes to fund the schools that neighborhood children attend. Underresourced schools make it virtually impossible for graduates to be able to attend those colleges and universities. — Dorothy A. Brown, Getting to Reparations, 448

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the eminent-domain thread raised in Chapter 1 of Brown’s Whiteness of Wealth and to the ADDENDUM framing of injustice as stripping wealth, not granting it. — connects to: Eminent domain threats once forced wealthy landowners to donate parkway land — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the…, 802
• QUESTION: What is the empirical basis for the 58 percent minority figure, and who analyzed the 2000 census data?