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The Racial Wealth Gap A Brief History | 1.5 MB
Title: The Racial Wealth Gap
Author: Mehrsa Baradaran
Category: Nonfiction, Social & Cultural Studies, Social Science, Cultural Studies, African-American Studies, Discrimination & Race Relations, History, Military
Language: English | 192 Pages | ISBN: 0393881822
Description:
A concise history that uncovers the roots of this most pernicious American divide and makes an urgent call for reparations.
Why has the racial wealth gap between the median white households and median Black households remained stagnant over the past century, never narrowing below six to one? Leading expert on race and financial equality Mehrsa Baradaran attempts to answer this question in this sweeping yet accessible history. She shows how decades of the laws rooted in white supremacy-from slavery and the broken Reconstruction-era promise of "40 acres and a mule," to the racist policies of the Jim Crow and New Deal eras-have restricted Black access to capital, credit, homeownership, and other mechanisms of wealth creation while subsidizing the rising economic fortunes of white families.
In The Racial Wealth Gap, Baradaran outlines two tectonic forces that have driven apart the economic fortunes of white and Black families: wealth...
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