The color of money Black banks and the racial wealth gap
"When the Emancipation Proclamation was signed in 1863, the black community owned less than one percent of the United States' total wealth. More than one hundred and fifty years later, that number has barely budged. The Color of Money seeks to explain the stubborn persistence of this racial wealth g...
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| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, Massachusetts :
The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press,
2019.
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| Edition: | First Harvard University Press paperback edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Forty acres or a savings bank
- Capitalism without capital
- The rise of black banking
- The new deal for white America
- Civil rights dreams, economic nightmares
- The decoy of black capitalism
- The free market confronts black poverty
- The color of money matters.
