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A dream defaulted : the student loan crisis among black borrowers / Jason N. Houle, Fenaba R. Addo ; foreword by Ayanna Pressley.

"A Dream Defaulted explores how the student loan crisis disproportionately affects Black borrowers and why rising student debt is both a cause and consequence of social inequality in the United States. Jason N. Houle and Fenaba R. Addo offer a deft analysis of the growing financial crisis in ed...

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Online Access: Full Text (via EBSCO)
Main Authors: Houle, Jason N., 1983- (Author), Addo, Fenaba R. (Author)
Other Authors: Pressley, Ayanna (writer of foreword.)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, MA : Harvard Education Press, [2022]
Subjects:
Student loans > United States.
African American college students > Economic conditions.
African American college students > Finance, Personal.
Discrimination in higher education > Economic aspects.
Discrimination in higher education > United States.
Debt > United States.
Discrimination in financial services > United States.
Debt.
Discrimination in financial services.
Discrimination in higher education.
Student loans.
United States.
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword / Ayanna Pressley
  • Introduction : missing race in the student debt debate
  • The racialization of student debt
  • Off to college, into the red
  • Progressing through college : no room for error
  • Life after college : "it just seems like you're going to pay forever"
  • The hidden costs of debt repayment
  • Student debt and the reproduction of the (fragile) Black middle class
  • Upstream and downstream solutions
  • Afterword : the COVID-19 pandemic.

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