Author: Eugene Mitchell
Publisher: E. Mitchell Enterprises
ISBN: 9780692975275
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 224
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Differences in how races, religious and ethnic groups used financial tools and strategies prompted Eugene Mitchell to create the $50 Billion Empowerment Plan for Black wealth. The plan amassed $50 Billion of income protection for over 340,000 Black families. The Rules are simple and easy, and the book has resources, and how to get started.
Author: Mehrsa Baradaran
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674982304
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 382
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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 financial engines that create wealth in America.” —Ezra Klein When the Emancipation Proclamation was signed in 1863, the black community owned less than 1 percent of the total wealth in America. More than 150 years later, that number has barely budged. 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 movement in full swing, President Nixon promoted “black capitalism,” a plan to support black banks and minority-owned businesses. But 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. In this timely and eye-opening account, Baradaran challenges the long-standing belief that black communities could ever really hope to accumulate wealth in a segregated economy. “Black capitalism has not improved the economic lives of black people, and Baradaran deftly explains the reasons why.” —Los Angeles Review of Books “A must read for anyone interested in closing America’s racial wealth gap.” —Black Perspectives
Author: Melvin Oliver
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135024782
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 345
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The award-winning Black Wealth / White Wealth offers a powerful portrait of racial inequality based on an analysis of private wealth. Melvin Oliver and Thomas Shapiro's groundbreaking research analyzes wealth - total assets and debts rather than income alone - to uncover deep and persistent racial inequality in America, and they show how public policies have failed to redress the problem. First published in 1995, Black Wealth / White Wealth is considered a classic exploration of race and inequality. It provided, for the first time, systematic empirical evidence that explained the racial inequality gap between blacks and whites. The Tenth Anniversary edition contains two entirely new and substantive chapters. These chapters look at the continuing issues of wealth and inequality in America and the new policies that have been launched in the past ten years. Some have been progressive while others only recreate inequality - for example the proposal to eliminate the estate tax. Compelling and also informative, Black Wealth / White Wealth is not just pioneering research. It is also a powerful counterpoint to arguments against affirmative action and a direct challenge to current social welfare policies that are tilted towards the wealthy.
Author: Rodney Brooks
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780979168628
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Racism and discrimination put us here, but this is how we can save future generations. An essential book by a longtime MONEY section editor of USA Today.
Author: Thomas M. Shapiro
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780195181388
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 260
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Shapiro, the author of "Black Wealth/White Wealth," blends personal stories, interviews, empirical data, and analysis to illuminate how family assets produce dramatic consequences in the everyday lives of ordinary citizens.
Author: Edward N. Wolff
Publisher: Levy Economics Institute of Bard College
ISBN: 9781931493048
Category : Race
Languages : en
Pages : 56
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