Sustainability Roundtable: Racial Justice in American Land Use
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Feb 20, 2026
from 12:00 PM to 01:00 PM |
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| Where | Microsoft Teams |
| Contact Name | May Zhang |
| Contact Phone | 502-338-7956 |
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Join UofL's Sustainability Roundtable for this vital conversation about research efforts into Racial Justice in American Land Use with our featured presenter, Dr. Craig Anthony (Tony) Arnold, UofL Professor of Law and Boehl Chair in Property & Land Use; Affiliated Professor of Urban & Public Affairs; and Director of the Resilience Justice Project. The Resilience Justice Project supports innovative, student-led projects that explore how legal systems and policies shape equity, environmental justice, and resilience in underserved communities. These projects combine academic research with community partnership, giving students the opportunity to engage directly with systemic challenges while contributing to real-world reform.
Tony Arnold co-edited the new book Racial Justice in American Land Use (Cambridge University Press, 2025) with Cedric Merlin Powell, Howard University, Catherine Fosl, University of Louisville, and Laura Rothstein, University of Louisville Brandeis School of Law. Over a century after racial zoning was invalidated, American land use remains racially unjust. When racist tools were abolished, other facially neutral tools were created or adapted to maintain white power and wealth. Policies, practices, and laws evolved to embed racial inequality and white supremacy deeply into institutional structures and landscapes. Despite modest improvements since the early twentieth century, land use and neighborhood conditions for Black people and other people of color remain dramatically worse than for whites. Discrimination and segregation persist. This enduring and multi-faceted nature of racial injustice in the American land use system means that there is no one cause and no one solution. Instead, this book advocates for nuanced systemic change. Using cross-disciplinary analysis in social-movement history, legal theory, and public policy, the authors call for a racial-justice transformation that integrates grassroots racial-justice activism, newly revitalized anti-subordination legal theories, and many different public policy reforms.
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