![]() ![]() After opening the book with a stark assessment of the intergenerational effects of white supremacy on black economic well-being, Darity and Mullen look to both the past and the present to measure the inequalities borne of slavery. Kirsten Mullen confront these injustices head-on and make the most comprehensive case to date for economic reparations for U.S. In From Here to Equality, William Darity Jr. Economic data indicates that for every dollar the average white household holds in wealth the average black household possesses a mere ten cents. Today, systematic inequality persists in the form of housing discrimination, unequal education, police brutality, mass incarceration, employment discrimination, and massive wealth and opportunity gaps. But neither Reconstruction nor the New Deal nor the civil rights struggle led to an economically just and fair nation. government temporarily implemented a major redistribution of land from former slaveholders to the newly emancipated enslaved. Perhaps no moment was more opportune than the early days of Reconstruction, when the U.S. At several historic moments, the trajectory of racial inequality could have been altered dramatically. Racism and discrimination have choked economic opportunity for African Americans at nearly every turn. ![]()
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