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The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap
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AccountingEconomicsBlack American History
Publisher Price: $19.95
ISBN13: 9780674237476
Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr
Published: Mar 11 2019
Pages: 384
Weight: 0.75
Height: 1.20 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.20
Language: English
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
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