Kenneth T. Jackson

How America gave up on housing equality.

The Power Broker leaves us ill-equipped to understand or confront the struggles that face the city today.

American expansionism goes beyond territory.

In trying to understand one of the key aspects of structural racism, have we constructed a new moralistic story that obscures more than it illuminates?

The connections between private industry and government were much more fluid than was previously imagined.

Traditional environmentalism has lacked a meaningful, practical democratic vision, rendering it largely marginal to the day-to-day lives of most Americans.

Connecting present-day environmental inequalities to redlining policies of the 1930s.

The Confederate memorial carving at Georgia’s Stone Mountain is etched with more than a century of racist history. But tearing it down won’t be so easy.

Today's housing crisis in San Francisco originates from zoning laws that segregated racial groups and income levels.