Uploaded March 2023 | Updated September 2026, 1 day ago

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How do city and state governments go about creating “ghettos” to sequester their undesirable communities while protecting affluent white spaces? And at whose expense? Sheryll Cashin, J.D., the Carmack Waterhouse Professor of Law, Civil Rights and Social Justice at Georgetown University Law Center, joins host Dr. Mark Anthony Neal to discuss her latest book, "White Space, Black Hood: Opportunity Hoarding and Segregation in the Age of Inequality," published by Beacon Press.

Find out more about Prof. Cashin here: https://www.law.georgetown.edu/faculty/sheryll-d-cashin/

Get her new book here: beacon.org/White-Space-Black-Hood-P1726.aspx

Left of Black is a web series featuring interviews with Black Studies scholars produced by the John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute at Duke University.

Directed and edited by Eric Barstow.
Assistant editor, Tessa Delgo.

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