The color of money : Black banks and the racial wealth gap /

The color of money : Black banks and the racial wealth gap / Mehrsa Baradaran.

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"When the Emancipation Proclamation was signed in 1863, the black community owned less than one percent of the United States' total wealth. More than 150 years later, that number has barely budged. The Color of Money pursues the persistence of this racial wealth gap by focusing on the gene...

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Main Author: Baradaran, Mehrsa, 1978- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2017.
Subjects:
African Americans > Economic conditions.
African American banks > History.
Discrimination in banking > United States > History.
African Americans > Finance.
Wealth > United States > History.
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.

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