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The Color of Money : Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap /

In 1863 black communities owned less than 1 percent of total U.S. wealth. Today that number has barely budged. Mehrsa Baradaran pursues this wealth gap by focusing on black banks. She challenges the myth that black banking is the solution to the racial wealth gap and argues that black communities ca...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Baradaran, Mehrsa (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2018]
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • 1. Forty Acres or a Savings Bank
  • 2. Capitalism without Capital
  • 3. The Rise of Black Banking
  • 4. The New Deal for White America
  • 5. Civil Rights Dreams, Economic Nightmares
  • 6. The Decoy of Black Capitalism
  • 7. The Free Market Confronts Black Poverty
  • 8. The Color of Money Matters
  • Epilogue
  • Notes
  • Acknowledgements
  • Index