The white wall : how big finance bankrupts black America / Emily Flitter.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Flitter, Emily, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Discrimination in financial services--United States.

Discrimination in financial services.

Discrimination in banking--United States.

Discrimination in banking.

Discrimination in insurance--United States.

Discrimination in insurance.

Financial exclusion--United States.

Financial exclusion.

Racism--Economic aspects--United States.

Racism.

Racism against Black people--United States.

Racism against Black people.

Racism--Economic aspects.

United States.

Physical Description:

vii, 321 pages ; 24 cm.

Edition:

First One Signal Publishers/Atria Books hardcover edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : One Signal Publishers/Atria, 2022.

Summary:

A deeply reported examination of the systemic racism inside the American financial services industry exposes practices designed to maintain the racial wealth gap, and draws on data, history, legal scholarship, and personal stories to provide a look at what it means to bank while Black.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: PART ONE

One. Banking While Black

Two. Mystery Shoppers

Three. Ricardo and Jimmy

PART TWO

Four. The Truth About HR

Five. Unsafe at Any Level

Six. The Friendly Guy Next Door, Edward Jones

PART THREE

Seven. How Insurance Works if You're Black (It Doesn't)

Eight. The Problem with the Machines

Nine. On the Diversity Circuit

PART FOUR

Ten. On Whitewashing

Eleven. Reparations and the Big Banks

Twelve. Making Pledges

Thirteen. What Wall Street Should Do

Fourteen. On Their Own.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-308) and index.

ISBN:

9781982183240

1982183241

OCLC:

1347750965

Publisher Number:

99992599792