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  1. Sep 14, 2017 · 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. Studying these institutions over time, Mehrsa Baradaran challenges the myth that black communities could ever accumulate wealth in a segregated economy.

  2. The Color of Money. Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap. Mehrsa Baradaran. Hardcover. Paperback. eBook. ISBN 9780674970953. Publication date: 09/14/2017. Request exam copy. “Read this book. It explains so much about the moment…Beautiful, heartbreaking work.” —Ta-Nehisi Coates.

  3. Mar 7, 2019 · The book goes on to document the establishment of early black-managed banks to serve communities cut off by Jim Crow laws from full participation in the U.S. economy. Baradaran gives an insightful explanation of the causes of a weak black banking system.

  4. Mar 11, 2019 · As a work of history, the book contains a disturbingly coherent narrative of racist plunder spanning from the Freedman’s Bureau bank to today’s payday lenders… Baradaran’s book is a must read for anyone interested in closing Americas racial wealth gap. Black Perspectives - Guy Emerson Mount

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  5. Sep 14, 2017 · The Color of Money seeks to explain the stubborn persistence of this racial wealth gap by focusing on the generators of wealth in the black community: black banks.With the civil rights...

  6. In this important book, law professor Mehrsa Baradaran uses the history of black banking from emancipation to the present as a vehicle for exploring the origins and persistence of the racial wealth gap in America. This is more than a history of financial institutions, though.

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  7. Sep 14, 2017 · Combining a rich historical sweep with in-depth analysis of the mechanics of banking, Baradaran unpacks the brutal dilemma facing black banks―how to create black wealth in the context of a segregated and unequal ‘Jim Crow’ economy.

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