Nelson and Brent Cebul of the University of Richmond – illustrates better than ever before the highly structured nature of housing discrimination in 20th-century America. Likewise, the innovative Mapping Inequality project – a collaboration of scholars at Virginia Tech, Johns Hopkins, and the University of Maryland and directed by Robert K. When Ta-Nehisi Coates penned his now- classic essay arguing for reparations in 2014, he focused on the role of homeownership – or rather its denial – in black American life. Few facets of American citizenship embody the national ideal more than homeownership.