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The Racial Wealth Gap
A Brief History
Series: A Norton Short
Brief Description
Why has the racial wealth gap between the median white households and median Black households in America remained stagnant over the past century, never narrowing below six to one? Mehrsa Baradaran attempts to answer this question in this sweeping yet accessible history. She shows how decades...
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The Racial Wealth Gap
A concise history that uncovers the roots of this most pernicious American divide and makes an urgent call for reparations
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Description
Why has the racial wealth gap between the median white households and median Black households in America remained stagnant over the past century, never narrowing below six to one? Mehrsa Baradaran attempts to answer this question in this sweeping yet accessible history.
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 subsidising the rising economic fortunes of white families.
An infuriating and compelling read, The Racial Wealth Gap offers a devastating analysis of one of America’s most pressing systemic issues.
A Norton Short
Series: A Norton Short
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ISBN: 9780393881820
Publisher: WW Norton & Co
Format: Hardback
Date Published: 03 February 2026
Country: United States
Imprint: WW Norton & Co
Illustration: 1 chart
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Width: 140.0mm
Height: 210.0mm
Weight: 0g
Pages: 192
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About the Author
Mehrsa Baradaran is a law professor at University of California, Irvine, and the acclaimed author of The Color of Money and How the Other Half Banks. She lives in Irvine, California.
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