The Color of Money : : Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap / / Mehrsa Baradaran.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press Complete eBook-Package 2017
• VerfasserIn: Baradaran, Mehrsa,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2018]; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (360 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Introduction --; 1. Forty Acres or a Savings Bank --; 2. Capitalism without Capital --; 3. The Rise of Black Banking --; 4. The New Deal for White America --; 5. Civil Rights Dreams, Economic Nightmares --; 6. The Decoy of Black Capitalism --; 7. The Free Market Confronts Black Poverty --; 8. The Color of Money Matters --; Epilogue --; Notes --; Acknowledgements --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780674982284; 9783110543315
• DOI: 10.4159/9780674982284
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Mehrsa Baradaran.

In 1863 black communities owned less than 1 percent of total U.S. wealth. Today that number has barely budged. Mehrsa Baradaran pursues this wealth gap by focusing on black banks. She challenges the myth that black banking is the solution to the racial wealth gap and argues that black communities can never accumulate wealth in a segregated economy.