Film screening: "Owned: A Tale of Two Americas"

Description

The screening of Owned: A Tale of Two Americas will be followed by a discussion and Q&A with director Giorgio Angelini and Nathan Connolly, associate professor of History at Johns Hopkins, and moderated by film co-writer Alessandro Angelini, assistant professor of Anthropology at Johns Hopkins. This event is sponsored by the Department of Anthropology.

Film synopsis:

The United States' postwar housing policy created the world's largest middle class. It also set America on two divergent paths -- one of imagined wealth, propped up by speculation and endless booms and busts, and the other in systematically defunded, segregated communities, where "the American dream" feels hopelessly out of reach.

Owned is a fever dream vision into the dark history behind the U.S. housing economy. Tracking its overtly racist beginnings and its unbridled commoditization, the film exposes a foundational story that few Americans understand as their own.