{"product_id":"9780393881820","title":"The Racial Wealth Gap","description":"\u003cb\u003eThis infuriating and compelling read offers a devastating analysis of one of Amerca's most pressing systemic issues.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhy has the racial wealth gap between the median white households and median Black households remained stagnant over the past century, never narrowing below six to one?\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eLeading expert on race and financial equality Mehrsa Baradaran attempts to answer this question in \u003ci\u003eThe Racial Wealth Gap\u003c\/i\u003e. She shows how decades of the laws rooted in white supremacy—from slavery and the broken Reconstruction-era promise of \"40 acres and a mule,\" to the racist policies of the Jim Crow and New Deal eras—have restricted Black access to capital, credit, homeownership, and other mechanisms of wealth creation while subsidizing the rising economic fortunes of white families.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eIn this concise and authoritative history, Baradaran outlines two tectonic forces that have driven apart the economic fortunes of white and Black families: \u003ci\u003ewealth creation\u003c\/i\u003e for white Americans, who have been systematically receiving financial subsidies in the century and a half since emancipation, and \u003ci\u003ewealth destruction\u003c\/i\u003e for Black Americans—either by vigilante violence or by official means, such as allowing Black banks to collapse or building highways through segregated Black communities. These forces, combined with the racist notion that Black communities fail to rise because of their own moral, intellectual, or economic shortcomings, have kept Black families behind their white counterparts, despite decades of civil rights activism and national economic growth—a deep injustice that can only be achieved through reparations.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n","brand":"Mehrsa Baradaran","offers":[{"title":"Hardback","offer_id":47968073023710,"sku":"9780393881820","price":32.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0425\/4567\/6440\/files\/BNCImageAPI_b7573f3c-0ce9-4a6c-8d7d-fe6fc45998d7.jpg?v=1773192526","url":"https:\/\/paragraphbooks.com\/products\/9780393881820","provider":"Librairie Paragraphe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}