Document Type
Book Review
Publication Title
College & Research Libraries (C&RL)
Abstract
To discuss student loan debt and racial injustice may seem to be disparate conversations, yet these two crises in our society are so ubiquitous that they feel like the water we swim in. We all feel the water is noxious and poisoning us. In A Dream Defaulted: The Student Loan Crisis among Black Borrowers, Houle and Addo patiently and thoroughly connect the quantitative data with the lived experiences of nearly fifty individuals who are both student loan borrowers and Black in order to show “that student debt is a new mechanism by which racial, social, and economic inequalities are reproduced across generations,” as well as how that mechanism operates systemically.
Pages
629-631
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DOI
https://doi.org/10.5860/crl.84.4.629
Publisher
American Library Association (ALA)
Volume
84
Issue
4
Publication Date
2023
Disciplines
Library and Information Science
ISSN
0010-0870
Recommended Citation
Hahn, Kyra, AND James, Heather. "Jason N. Houle and Fenaba R. Addo. A Dream Defaulted: The Student Loan Crisis among Black Borrowers. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Education Press, 2022. 208p. Paper, $39 ISBN: 978-1-68253-756-5." College & Research
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