{"product_id":"fifteen-cents-on-the-dollar-how-americans-made-the-blackwhite-wealth-gap-isbn-9780063234727","title":"Fifteen Cents on the Dollar: How Americans Made the Black-White Wealth Gap","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA sweeping, narrative history of Black wealth and the economic discrimination embedded in America’s financial system. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe early 2020s will long be known as a period of racial reflection. In the wake of the police killing of George Floyd, Americans of all backgrounds joined together in historic demonstrations in the streets, discussions in the workplace, and conversations at home about the financial gaps that remain between white and Black Americans. This deeply investigated book shows the scores of setbacks that have held the Black-white wealth gap in place—from enslavement to redlining to banking discrimination—and, ultimately, the reversals that occurred in the mid-2020s as the push for racial equity became a polarized political debate.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eFifteen Cents on the Dollar\u003c\/em\u003e follows the lives of four Black Millennial professionals and a banking company founded with the stated mission of closing the Black-white wealth gap. That company, known as Greenwood, a reference to the historic Black Wall Street district in Tulsa, Oklahoma, generated immense excitement and hope among people looking for new ways of business that might lead to greater equity. But the twists and turns of Greenwood’s journey also raise tough questions about what equality really means.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSeasoned journalist-academics Louise Story and Ebony Reed present a nuanced portrait of Greenwood’s founders—the entertainment executive Ryan Glover; the Grammy-winning rapper Michael Render, better known as Killer Mike; and the Civil Rights leader and two-term Atlanta mayor, Andrew Young—along with new revelations about their lives, careers, and families going back to the Civil War. Equally engaging are the stories of the lesser-known individuals—a female tech employee from rural North Carolina trying to make it in a big city; a rising leader at the NAACP whose father is in prison; an owner of a BBQ stand in Atlanta fighting to keep his home; and a Black man in a biracial marriage grappling with his roots when his father is shot by the police.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn chronicling these staggering injustices, \u003cem\u003eFifteen Cents on the Dollar\u003c\/em\u003e shows why so little progress has been made on the wealth gap and provides insights Americans should consider if they want lasting change.\u003c\/p\u003e | \u003cp\u003e\"A compelling exploration of America's racial wealth divide with an exceptional blend of rigorous data and profound human emotion. At a moment when discussions about inequality are vital, this book offers a journey that engages the mind and the heart. Whether in the boardroom, within our communities, or around the dinner table, these insights offer a more nuanced, informed, and empathetic perspective on personal and professional growth, and how we can do better.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eCharles Duhigg, New York Times bestselling author of The Power of Habit and Supercommunicators\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A brilliant and disturbing book that exposes and explains the pernicious nexus between the American economic system and American racism. It should be required reading for anyone seeking to understand the persistence of the wealth gap in our nation.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eJill Abramson, author of The Merchants of Truth: The Business of News and the Fight for Facts, and former executive editor of The New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“\u003cem\u003eFifteen Cents on the Dollar\u003c\/em\u003e will challenge everything you thought you knew about the Black-white wealth gap. It hits differently when you see it through the eyes of those who’ve struggled to endure and overcome it. This book is insightful, inspiring, and enraging — in a word, a revelation.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWilliam J. Kole, author of The Big 100: The New World of Super-Aging and former Associated Press editor\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"As a Black man who’s experienced some of the issues of the people in these pages, I felt seen reading this book. As a journalist, I was thrilled to see such powerful reporting and storytelling be harnessed for explaining one of the most convoluted yet consequential topics in American history. \u003cem\u003eFifteen Cents on the Dollar\u003c\/em\u003e is accessible, compelling, eye-opening, moving and, at times, very sobering. It’s a weighty message, but not a heavy read. It's an important read.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eJared Council, founding editor of For(bes) The Culture and former Wall Street Journal reporter\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Wealth is where history shows up in your wallet. \u003cem\u003eFifteen Cents on the Dollar\u003c\/em\u003e is an unforgettable look into how the racial wealth divide impacts families, our economy and our society as a whole. This pivotal work is a must-read for those hoping to understand how today's inequalities are the result of a system built on a legacy of oppression.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eHeather McGhee, New York Times bestselling author of The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Story and Reed say wealth is financial power accumulated over time, then show how the Black community has been blocked for centuries in the game. Pay attention. This isn’t just history; the problem could get worse in an age of widening inequality.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eJon Hilsenrath, former chief economics correspondent, The Wall Street Journal, and author of Yellen: The Trailblazing Economist Who Navigated an Era of Upheaval\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Louise Story and Ebony Reed have written an expertly reported and deeply moving book...I can’t tell you the number times I thought, ‘Oh no, Tandreia!’ as she repeatedly got her hopes up only to have them dashed again. I was so concerned when the authors couldn’t get in touch with Lovelace. And I loved getting to know Killer Mike, Brook Bacon, James Woodall, and many others. By telling the stories of these individuals and their families...Louise and Ebony offer fresh and much-needed insight. This is reporting and storytelling of the highest order.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eStephen Wisnefski, executive editor, Investopedia\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Story and Reed have written one of the most poignant and insightful accounts of race, wealth, and poverty in the United States I have come across in the last twenty years. The stories they tell, the data they show, and the conclusions they draw are all compelling, disturbing, and convincing. Here is a book ready for policy makers, activists, community leaders and everyone interested in addressing the insidious interweaving of poverty and race in America.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWillie James Jennings, associate professor of Theology and Africana Studies and author of After Whiteness: An Education in Belonging\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“If you are passionate—or even just curious—about equality in our country, read this book. It offers the economic grounding to debate the most pressing issues of our time: Education, healthcare, taxes, housing, labor policies, practically every issue in our country has an important element tied to the Black-white wealth gap. Just as Thomas Piketty’s \u003cem\u003eCapital\u003c\/em\u003e shed new light and broad interest on the subject,\u003cem\u003e Fifteen Cents on the Dollar\u003c\/em\u003e will catalyze broad and thoughtful conversations about the Black-white wealth gap.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eJanelle Jones, vice president of policy and advocacy at the Washington Center for Equitable Growth and former chief economist of the Department of Labor\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“An eye-opening look at how the wealth gap between Black Americans and the white majority grows ever wider. . . .An important book that should inform conversations about equity at every level.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Deeply researched...sobering. Story and Reed...elucidate both the Black-white wealth gap and the 'Black-Black wealth gap'—the divide between wealthy Black Atlantans and their poorer counterparts.\"  - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Harper","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44890649002213,"sku":"NP9780063234727","price":32.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780063234727.jpg?v=1730233765","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/fifteen-cents-on-the-dollar-how-americans-made-the-blackwhite-wealth-gap-isbn-9780063234727","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}