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African Americans Economic conditions Income distribution United States Race relations Economic aspects Racism Racism Economic aspects United States Racism United States Taxation Law and legislation Taxation Moral and ethical aspects United States United States Race relations Economic aspectsStory, Louise
Summary: "A sweeping, narrative history of Black wealth and the economic discrimination embedded in America's financial system." --
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2024
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 339.4 STOFord, Clyde W.
Summary: "Of Blood and Sweat: Black Lives and the Genesis of White Power and Wealth tells the story of how Black lives and labor created White power and wealth in agriculture, politics, jurisprudence, law enforcement, culture, medicine, financial services, and other fields. Through the lives of individual Black men and women a deeper understanding unravels of the role Blacks played, directly and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amistad 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.3 FORFlitter, Emily
Summary: A deeply reported examination of the systemic racism inside the American financial services industry exposes practices designed to maintain the racial wealth gap, and draws on data, history, legal scholarship, and personal stories to provide a look at what it means to bank while Black.
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Publisher / Publication Date: One Signal Publishers/Atria 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 332.1089 FLIBrown, Dorothy A.
Summary: "An exposé of racism in the American taxation system from a law professor and expert on tax policy. Dorothy A. Brown became a tax lawyer to get away from race. As a young Black girl growing up in the South Bronx, she'd seen how racism limited the lives of her family and neighbors. Her law school classes offered a refreshing contrast: tax law was about numbers, and the only color that mattered...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 343.73 BROMcGhee, Heather C.
Summary: "Heather C. McGhee's specialty is the American economy--and the mystery of why it so often fails the American public. As she dug into subject after subject, from the financial crisis to declining wages to collapsing public infrastructure, she found a common problem at the bottom of them all: racism--but not just in the obvious ways that hurt people of color. Racism has costs for white people,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: One World 2021