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"Read this book. It explains so much about the moment...Beautiful, heartbreaking work." --Ta-Nehisi Coates "A deep accounting of how America got to a point where a median white family has 13 times more wealth than the median black family."--The Atlantic "Extraordinary...Baradaran focuses on a part of the American story that's often ignored: the way African Americans were locked out of the ...
Mar 7, 2019 · As explanations of the racial wealth gap and the persisting structural inequality of the U.S. economy, Dr. Mehrsa Baradaran’s 2017 book, The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap, is the ideal shelf-mate to Richard Rothstein’s The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America, published the same year.
The Color of Money pursues the persistence of this racial wealth gap by focusing on the generators of wealth in the black community: black banks. The catch-22 of black banking is that the very institutions needed to help communities escape the deep poverty caused by discrimination and segregation inevitably became victims of that same poverty.
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Book review by Kristin Langen. Mehrsa Baradaran combines research on social movements, law and heterodox economics to explain in a clear, easily accessible and convincing manner the struggles Black banks face due to structural racial inequalities. The Color of Money is as much enriching for people without economic background as it is for academics.
The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap. Paperback – 29 Mar. 2019. by Mehrsa Baradaran (Author) 4.8 2,241 ratings. See all formats and editions. "A deep accounting of how America got to a point where a median white family has 13 times more wealth than the median black family." --The Atlantic.
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Sep 2, 2016 · So this month's pick for the Color of Money Book Club is " Making Social Security Work For You ," by Emily Guy Birken. Guy Birken, a personal finance blogger, brings her breezy style to explaining ...
Mar 11, 2019 · ― Robert E. Weems, Jr., American Historical Review “Anyone who manages money, invests in others’ livelihoods or lives in America should read The Color of Money …The book digs into financial institutions and policies that are responsible for creating and maintaining racial inequalities in the United States…The book breaks down the ...
