"In this book, Jim Freeman suggests that the biggest reason America cannot get beyond its racial divide is as simple as it disturbing: Racism is enormously profitable. Rich Thanks to Racism exposes a group of Corporate America and Wall Street billionaires as a driving force behind the public policies that perpetuate racial inequities and cause severe harm to communities of color across the country"--

"In the last few decades, any hope of economic progress for black Americans has been slowly and steadily undermined. This quiet crisis was only exacerbated by the recession, which cut black households' wealth by over 30 percent. Black millennials watched their parents try to play by the rules, buying homes and aspiring to the trappings of middle-class life, only to sink deeper and deeper into debt. Now, in the post-Obama era, young black Americans...

Despǔs de la elecci̤n de Barack Obama, muchos declararon el comienzo de una era post-racial. Sin embargo, el pensamiento racista, m̀s sofisticado e insidioso que nunca, permanece profundamente arraigado en la sociedad estadounidense. Como sostiene Ibram X. Kendi, la voz m̀s influyente en la lucha antirracista y uno de los l̕deres actuales del movimiento # BlackLivesMatter, aunque las ideas racistas se desarrollan, difunden y consagran con mucha...