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.

Kyra Hahn
,
Heather James

Denver Public Library
,
Foley Library

Research Output: Contribution to journal Book/Film/Article review

Open access

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.

Access to documents

10.5860/crl.84.4.629

License:CC BY-NC

Sustainable Development Goals

SDG 10 Reduced Inequalities

Bibliographic Information

Output type

Research Output: Contribution to journal Book/Film/Article review

Original language

American English

Pages from-to (Number of pages)

Pages 629-631 (3 pages)

Journal (Volume, Issue Number)

C&RL (Volume 84, Issue 4)

Publication milestones

Published - 2023

Publication status

Published - 2023

ISSN

0010-0870