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Black power scorecard : measuring the racial gap and what we can do to close it / Andre M. Perry.
Van Pelt Library E185.8 .P4295 2025
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Perry, Andre M., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African Americans--Economic conditions.
- African Americans.
- African Americans--Reparations.
- Income distribution--United States.
- Income distribution.
- Power (Social sciences)--United States.
- Power (Social sciences).
- United States--Race relations.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 240 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Other Title:
- Measuring the racial gap and what we can do to close it
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt and Company, 2025.
- Summary:
- "Historically, Black Americans' quest for power has been understood as an attempt to gain equal protections under the law. But power in America requires more than basic democratic freedoms. It is inextricably linked with economic influence and ownership-of one's self, home, business, and creations. Andre M. Perry draws on extensive research and analysis to quantify how much power Black Americans actually have. Ranging from property, business, and wealth to education, health, and social mobility, he moves across the country, evaluating people's ability to set the rules of the game and calculating how that translates into the ultimate means of power-life itself, and the longevity of Black communities. Along the way, he identifies woefully overlooked areas of investment that can close the power gap and benefit all. An expansive take on power supported by documentation and data, Black Power Scorecard is a fresh contribution to the country's reckoning with structural inequality, one that offers a new approach to redressing it"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Not a business venture
- Power to live
- Forty acres and a mall
- Business-built Black power
- Housing
- The power of marriage
- Education is power
- Empowerment through unity
- Reparations go to DC.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781250869715
- 1250869714
- OCLC:
- 1429657801
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