The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap
基本信息
Edited by：Mehrsa Baradaran
Publisher：Harvard University Press
Published：29 Mar 2019
Language：English
Format Paperback：384 pages
ISBN10：0674237471
ISBN13：9780674237476
Weight：340 g
Dimensions：140 x 210 x 30.48mm
页面参数仅供参考，具体以实物为准
书籍简介
"阅读这本书。它解释了很多关于此刻的事情......美丽、令人心碎的作品。"
-塔-内西-科茨
"对美国如何走到白人家庭财富中位数比黑人家庭财富中位数多13倍的地步进行了深刻的阐述。"
--《大西洋》杂志
"非同寻常......巴拉达兰专注于美国故事中经常被忽视的部分：非裔美国人被锁在创造美国财富的金融引擎之外的方式。"
-埃兹拉-克莱因
1863年签署《解放宣言》时，黑人社区拥有的财富还不到美国总财富的1%。150多年过去了，这个数字几乎没有变化。金钱的颜色》试图通过关注黑人社区的财富创造者：黑人银行，来解释这种种族财富差距的顽固存在。
随着民权运动的全面展开，尼克松总统提倡 "黑人资本主义"，这是一项支持黑人银行和少数民族企业的计划。但是，黑人银行的问题在于，需要帮助社区摆脱歧视和种族隔离造成的深度贫困的机构，不可避免地成为这种贫困的受害者。在这个及时的、令人大开眼界的叙述中，巴拉达兰挑战了长期以来的信念，即黑人社区真的有希望在一个隔离的经济中积累财富。
"黑人资本主义并没有改善黑人的经济生活，而巴拉达兰巧妙地解释了其中的原因。
-《洛杉矶书评》（Los Angeles Review of Books）。
"对于任何对缩小美国种族财富差距感兴趣的人来说，这是一本的书。"
--《黑人视角》。
"Read this book. It explains so much about the moment...Beautiful, heartbreaking work."
-Ta-Nehisi Coates
"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: the way African Americans were locked out of the financial engines that create wealth in America."
-Ezra Klein
When the Emancipation Proclamation was signed in 1863, the black community owned less than 1 percent of the total wealth in America. More than 150 years later, that number has barely budged. The Color of Money seeks to explain the stubborn persistence of this racial wealth gap by focusing on the generators of wealth in the black community: black banks.
With the civil rights movement in full swing, President Nixon promoted "black capitalism," a plan to support black banks and minority-owned businesses. But the catch-22 of black banking is that the very institutions needed to help communities escape the deep poverty caused by discrimination and segregation inevitably became victims of that same poverty. In this timely and eye-opening account, Baradaran challenges the long-standing belief that black communities could ever really hope to accumulate wealth in a segregated economy.
"Black capitalism has not improved the economic lives of black people, and Baradaran deftly explains the reasons why."
-Los Angeles Review of Books
"A must read for anyone interested in closing America's racial wealth gap."
-Black Perspectives
作者简介
梅尔萨-巴拉达兰是UCI法律学院的法学教授，是银行法方面的知名权威。除了获奖作品《金钱的颜色》外，她还撰写了《另一半人如何银行》。她曾为美国参议员和众议员提供政策建议，并在包括世界银行在内的国内和国际论坛上发言。
Mehrsa Baradaran is Professor of Law at UCI Law and a celebrated authority on banking law. In addition to the prizewinning The Color of Money, she is author of How the Other Half Banks. She has advised US senators and representatives on policy and spoken at national and international forums including the World Bank.
