“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
Product details
Publisher : Belknap Press: An Imprint of Harvard University Press; Reprint edition (March 11, 2019)
Language : English
Paperback : 384 pages
ISBN-10 : 0674237471
ISBN-13 : 978-0674237476
Item Weight : 15.2 ounces
Dimensions : 5.5 x 1 x 8.25 inches
Best Sellers Rank: #104,637 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
#241 in Economic History (Books)
#412 in Discrimination & Racism
#433 in African American Demographic Studies (Books)
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