A letter to my white friends and colleagues : what you can do right now to help the Black community / Steven S. Rogers.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rogers, Steven, 1957- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Income distribution--United States.

Income distribution.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxii, 218 pages) : color illustrations, color maps

Place of Publication:

Hoboken, New Jersey : Wiley, [2021]

Summary:

"Learn how to address racial wealth disparity in the United States today From the life, professional experiences, and research of former Harvard Business School professor Steven Rogers, comes his boldly stated, A Letter to My White Friends and Colleagues. This informative epistle investigates the causes of racial wealth disparity in the United States and provides solutions for addressing it. Through extensive data and historical research, anecdotes, teaching, and case studies, it presents practical ways White people can work with and help the Black community. It teaches readers that eliminating the $153,000 wealth gap between Black and White people is the solution to over 75% of our problems and offers solutions to help improve Black-White racial relations in the United States. In straightforward language, filled with facts, stories, advice, and sometimes even humor, A Letter to My White Friends and Colleagues encourages every White person to share his/her wealth with the Black community--plain and simple. This book recommends that you spend a portion of your annual household budget with Black-owned companies. If more money is spent at Black-owned businesses, those companies can grow and create more jobs for Black people. Rogers also proposes White people make large savings deposits into Black-owned banks. These are the financial institutions that are the backbone of the Black community that provide loans to the Black community for businesses, education, automobiles, and home mortgages. And finally, he resolutely encourages White people to support government reparations to Black Americans who are descendants of Black men and women, who were enslaved from 1619 to 1865. Those who read the book will: Understand the root causes of racial disparities in America Discover how you can personally contribute to reducing the inequality between Black and White people in the United States today Get concrete recommendations on how to redirect your spending to Black-owned institutions to help decrease the racial wealth gap."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

Preface: Social Unrest, Protests, andthe Podcasts

Notes

Introduction

Chapter 1 Why Should You Trust My Advice? Who Am I?

The Anatomy of Race Men and Race Women

Race Men and Women in History

Contemporary Race Men and Women

The Makings of a Race Man

A Race Man in Business

Taking a Stand from Within

The Importance of Being a Philanthropist

Paying It Forward

Chapter 2 How the Wealth Gap Was Created

The Roots of Black American Poverty

The End of Bondage

Black Codes

Home Ownership and Wealth Creation

Home Owners' Loan Corporation (HOLC)

Keeping Suburbs White

Chapter 3 Donate to HBCUs

HBCUs Financial Need

Endowments

HBCU History

Two Lincoln Universities

Recent Donations

How to Make Donations

Schools That Are Not Colleges

Chapter 4 Deposit Money intoBlack-Owned Banks

Black-Owned Banks versus White-Owned Banks

Mortgages

Contract Selling

Financial Apartheid

Freedman's Bank

Maggie L. Walker

Banking Black

How to Make Deposits

Companies

Individuals

Chapter 5 Support Black-Owned Businesses

The Importance of Black-Owned Businesses

Race in Business

More Than Employers

Black in Print

A Brief History of Black Entrepreneurship in the United States

White Destruction of Black Businesses

Supporting Black-Owned Restaurants

White Firms' Commitment

How to Find Black-Owned Businesses: Become a Customer

Basic Search Approach

National Search Tools

Professional Trade Associations

Regional Search Tools

Local Search Tools

Chapter 6 Write a Letter Supporting Reparations

Reparations History

The U.S. Precedent of Paying Out Reparations

HEAD: Making Reparations Work

Epilogue

Notes.

Discussion Questions

Acknowledgments

About the Author

Index

EULA.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781119794806

1119794803

9781119794783

1119794781

OCLC:

1246675211