The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap
- ISBN-10
- 0674970950
- ISBN-13
- 9780674970953
- Series
- The Color of Money
- Category
- Business & Economics
- Pages
- 360
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2017
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Author
- Mehrsa Baradaran
Description
Forty acres or a savings bank -- Capitalism without capital -- The rise of black banking -- The new deal for white America -- Civil rights dreams, economic nightmares -- The decoy of black capitalism -- The free market confronts black poverty -- The color of money matters
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