Book Reviews

Join me for upcoming book reviews mostly inspired from the Breaking Brown Book Club.  Please support your local independent ADOS owned bookstores. See the list here -->  AALBC  

 

July 26 They were her property : White women were Slave Owners  int he American South by Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers. This book dispels the myth of the innocence and non-complicity of white women during America overt chattel slavery past.  As matter of fact owning slaves and being groomed to manage these people by their family was the greatest economic and power equalizer between white men and women in marriage, society and business.   Metro Detroiters please support your local independent book providers.   

Aug 26 'The Color of Law: Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated American', by Richard Rothstein describes how it is the government who chooses winners and losers in America and it is through policy and legislation that a group of people are uplifted or destroyed. 

Sept 28  Where do we go from here: Chaos or Community by Dr. Martin Luther King.  The question was Economic Justice.  After social justice was one, King says many of his allies walked away from giving black Americans economic equality.  

 

Nov 30  The Color of Money : Black Banks and the Racial Wealth  by Mehrsa Baradaran.   The question many black boomer give to solving the economic divided betweee in black wealth and the 200 year head start of white American wealth building is black business. Ms Baradaran explains how exclusion and  prevention of wealth building via white mobs extermination black communities, government policies destroyed black financial institutions meant to support recently freed slaves in America and their descendants. 

Dec 30  When Affirmative Action was white: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth Century America by Ira Katznelson.  The author explains how the later wealth building via government's  legislation and programs geared to creating white wealth explains the success of the many white immigrants  major to moderate securing of wealth in America.  Self-determination and bootstrappism as basis of white Americans economic success is a myth.