{{Short description|American historian}} {{Infobox person | name = Beryl Satter | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1959|01|14}} | alma_mater = [[Yale University]] }} '''Beryl Satter''' (born January 14, 1959) is an American historian and a professor of history at [[Rutgers University]].<ref name="rupage">{{cite web|title=Profile: Beryl Satter|url=https://www.ncas.rutgers.edu/beryl-satter|accessdate=16 September 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170916182506/https://www.ncas.rutgers.edu/beryl-satter|archive-date=2017-09-16|url-status=dead}}</ref>

== Life ==

Satter was born on January 14, 1959, as the daughter of [[civil rights]] lawyer Mark J. Satter, who fought for black families suffering under the ruthless and oftentimes racist conditions that pervaded [[Chicago]]'s real estate market.<ref name="nyt">{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/18/books/18garn.html|title=In Chicago, Real Estate and Race as a Volatile Mix|newspaper=The New York Times|date=17 March 2009|last1=Garner|first1=Dwight}}</ref> In 1965, her father died of [[heart failure]] when she was just six years old.<ref name="nyt" />

== Career ==

Satter graduated from [[Yale University]] in 1992.<ref name="rupage" /> She is currently a professor of history at [[Rutgers University]].<ref name="rupage" />

The books she has authored focus mostly on the history of the city of Chicago.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://us.macmillan.com/familyproperties/berylsatter/9780805091427 |title=Family Properties {{!}} Beryl Satter {{!}} Macmillan |website=us.macmillan.com |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170116170540/http://us.macmillan.com/familyproperties/berylsatter/9780805091427 |archive-date=2017-01-16}}</ref> In particular, they have examined the history of race relations in Chicago, including their connection with the local real estate market, which at times was among the most segregated in the nation.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2013/03/the-ghetto-is-public-policy/274147/|title=The Ghetto is Public Policy|date=19 March 2013}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2026-05-12 |title=Who Benefits from Urban Poverty? |url=https://www.compactmag.com/article/who-benefits-from-urban-poverty/ |access-date=2026-05-16 |website=Compact |language=en}}</ref> Her work served as the basis for [[Ta-Nehisi Coates]]'s award-winning 2014 article "[[The Case for Reparations]]".<ref name="rupage" />

== Distinctions ==

Satter became a [[Guggenheim Fellow]] in 2015.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.gf.org/fellows/all-fellows/beryl-satter/|title = John Simon Guggenheim Foundation &#124; Beryl Satter}}</ref>

== Bibliography ==

Some of her books are:<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/424709.Beryl_Satter|title = Beryl Satter}}</ref>

* ''Family Properties: Race, Real Estate, and the Exploitation of Black Urban America '' * ''Each Mind a Kingdom: American Women, Sexual Purity, and the New Thought Movement, 1875-1920 ''

== Awards ==

* 2009: [[National Jewish Book Award]] in the History category for ''Family Properties: Race, Real Estate, and the Exploitation of Black Urban America''<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.jewishbookcouncil.org/awards/national-jewish-book-awards/past-winners?category=30756|title=Past Winners|last=|first=|date=|website=Jewish Book Council|language=en|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200316041325/https://www.jewishbookcouncil.org/awards/national-jewish-book-awards/past-winners?category=30756 |archive-date=2020-03-16 |access-date=2020-01-21}}</ref>

== References == {{Reflist}}

==External links== * {{Official website|http://us.macmillan.com/author/berylsatter/}}

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