[COMM-ORG] Special Call for Papers: Financial sector reform and communities of color

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From: David Beckwith <dbeckwith at needmorfund.org>



For comm-org – I know it’s third hand, but commorgers should know about 
the call…

From: Cris Doby [mailto:CDoby at mott.org]
Sent: Friday, March 06, 2009 10:16 AM
To: Cris Doby
Subject: FYI: Special Call for Papers


I'm forwarding this email I received in case any of your organizaitons 
are interested.

Representative Barney Frank just announced an aggressive agenda for the 
financial services committee over the next month.

It is important that minority borrowers and neighborhoods are included 
in the front-end of this thinking. We need our brightest and best minds 
THINKING BEYOND THE MOMENT and looking at the impact any proposed 
reforms will have on access to capital 30 to 5o years out. We know that 
the demographics of the country are changing can we afford not to 
consider the impact of financial and housing policy reform on future 
generations of minority borrowers?

Attached is a call for papers for the 50th Anniversary edition of the 
Journal for Intergroup Relations. I also hope that anyone who is 
currently working on these issues will shoot me an email so that we can 
try intervene in the current policy discussions.

Stella J. Adams
S J Adams Consulting
4128 Cobblestone Place
Durham, NC 27707
50th Anniversary Special Issue Call for Papers from
Journal of Intergroup Relations

The Journal of Intergroup Relations will celebrate its 50th anniversary 
with a special issue devoted to examining the immediate and long term 
ramifications of Financial Sector Reform on minority borrowers and 
communities of color. The National Association of Human Rights Workers 
(NAHRW) has published the Journal since 1959 and is especially 
interested in manuscripts that address Financial Sector Reform in both 
theoretical and practical ways.



Subprime and predatory loans have undermined minority homeownership and 
wealth. United for a Fair Economy estimates that the total loss of 
wealth for non-Whites will equal $164 billion to $213 billion for 
subprime loans.



The tightening of credit markets has reduced the opportunity of minority 
parents to use home equity to provide for their children’s college 
education making it more difficult for many minority students to attend 
college. This is not a problem limited to low to moderate income 
families. In fact, the majority of parents of black college students own 
their own home, hold college or advance degrees and have professional or 
managerial positions. Financial Sector Reform must explicitly address 
access for minority communities.



The Journal is seeking papers which will answer the following questions 
while addressing their immediate and long term implications for minority 
communities.

1. What role did loose underwriting standards, risk layering, limited 
documentation and high risk, complex mortgage products play in the 
current crisis and how do we construct future underwriting standards and 
products that provide access to affordable credit in a safe, sound and 
sustainable manner?
2. What happened to the Rules of SAWS (Stability, Ability, Willingness 
and Security) when evaluating a borrower’s qualification for a loan 
product and ability to pay back their mortgage loan? What consumer 
protection standards should be deployed to ensure borrowers understand 
the loan contracts they sign?
3. Community Lending (CRA) worked for ten years – Then what happened?
4. What is the lenders responsibility in ensuring the right product for 
the borrower? What standards of oversight should banks and aggregators 
employ to ensure that brokers and loan officers strike the right balance 
between borrower product needs and individual or lender profitability? 
What tools or standards are necessary to protect borrowers from rogue 
brokers and lenders who originate for profit without regard to borrower 
credit capability? How can community groups act as watchdogs to call out 
this behavior and protect consumers?
5. What is the future role of industry insurers (FHA and Private 
Mortgage Insurance) in building a reliable mortgage secondary market? 
What new standards of risk oversight, safe distribution and risk based 
capital are necessary to bring investor trust and confidence back into 
the securities industry while still allowing for creative new products? 
How do we correct industry failures, while preserving the conventional 
secondary market? What role should regulatory reform and enforcement 
play in stabilizing the capital markets for mortgages?
6. What is the role of FNMA/FHLMC going forward? What is the right 
balance between government ownership and the free market model to ensure 
the safety and soundness of the U. S. Mortgage industry while making 
affordable mortgage loans available to consumers?



MANUSCRIPT PREPARATION GUIDELINES



When preparing manuscripts, be sure to consult the 5th edition of the 
Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (APA).



Authors should allow for wide margins and double-space all material. 
Tables, charts, and graphs if used should be camera-ready, clearly 
labeled, and presented on a separate page. Footnotes and references 
should follow the article. Final manuscripts normally should not be more 
than 25 pages (including references, notes, and tables).



Each manuscript should include a title page with the following elements:

A. title of manuscript

B. author(s) name(s) and contact information, including email address is 
available

C. short bio statement

D. history of manuscript (i.e., thesis, dissertation, or conference 
presentation).



The original manuscript or an electronic version formatted as a WORD 
document should be sent to:



Special Editor

The Journal of Intergroup Relations

c/o NC Institute for Minority Economic Development

114 W. Main Street

6th floor

Durham, NC 27707



(NOTE) Electronic submission is highly encouraged and should be sent to 
Sadams7943 at aol.com. Inquiries about possible submissions are encouraged 
and should be directed to the Editor at (919) 423-4130. Deadline for 
appearing in this volume is June 1, 2009.



Upon receipt, each manuscript will be reviewed by the editor and/or 
members of the Editorial Board within 3-5 weeks. Once published, authors 
receive five complimentary copies of the issue of The Journal in which 
their articles appear.





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