ARTICLES
Adedayo Akala: Cost Of Racism: U.S. Economy Lost $16 Trillion Because Of Discrimination, Bank Says.
Emily Badger: Black poverty differs from white poverty.
Emily Badger, Claire Cain Miller, Adam Pearce, & Kevin Quealy: Most white boys raised in wealthy families will stay rich or upper middle class as adults, but black boys raised in similarly rich households will not.
Mehrsa Baradaran: How the Right Used Free Market Capitalism against the Civil Rights Movement.
Dolores Barclay & Todd Lewan: ‘When They Steal Your Land, They Steal Your Future’.
Rachel Black and Aleta Sprague: Republicans’ Fixation on Work Requirements Is Fueled by White Racial Resentment: And everyone, including white families, will lose.
Brookings Institute: 6 charts showing race gaps within the American middle class.
Ben Casselman and Jim Tankersley: Economics, Dominated by White Men, Is Roiled by Black Lives Matter: The editor of a top academic journal is facing calls to resign after criticizing protesters as “flat earthers” for wanting to defund the police.
William J. Collins & Marianne H. Wanamaker: African American Intergenerational Economic Mobility Since 1880.
Lisa D. Cook: Violence and Economic Activity: Evidence from African American Patents, 1870 to 1940.
Economic Policy Institute: Black unemployment is at least twice as high as white unemployment.
Dania Francis and Anna Gifty Opoku-Agyeman: Economists’ Silence on Racism Is 100 Years in the Making.
David M. P. Freund: Money is productive, and racist institutions create money.
Walter Greason: Race, Property, and Economic History: An Introduction.
Institute for Policy Studies: Report: The Road to Zero Wealth: How the Racial Wealth Divide is Hollowing Out America’s Middle Class.
Institute for Policy Studies: The Racial Wealth Divide Holds Back Black Earners at All Levels: If our nation wants to put its history of racial inequality behind it, we must bridge the wealth divide.
Institute for Women’s Policy Research: The Gender Wage Gap: 2018 Earnings Differences by Race and Ethnicity.
Tracy Jan: White families have nearly 10 times the net worth of black families. And the gap is growing.
Destin Jenkins: Debt and the Underdevelopment of Black America.
Hannibal B. Johnson: In 1921, a white mob burned ‘Black Wall Street’ down. We still feel that legacy toady.
Kaiser Family Foundation Database: Poverty Rate by Race/Ethnicity.
Trevon D. Logan: Do Black Politicians Matter? Evidence from Reconstruction.
Trevon D. Logan & John Parman: The National Rise in Residential Segregation.
Jesse Meisenhelter: Study documents discrimination against black entrepreneurs.
Melinda C. Miller: “The Righteous and Reasonable Ambition to Become a Landholder”: Land and racial inequality in the postbellum South.
Philanthropy News Digest: HBCUs Struggle to Close the Endowment Gap.
Planet Money: Patent Racism.
Planet Money: Black Economist’s Research Finds A Blindspot On A Theory Of Innovation.
Darius Rafieyan & Stacey Vanek Smith: How Racial Inequality Manifests In The U.S. Banking System.
Yaryna Serkez, Patrick Sharkey, & Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor: The Gaps Between White and Black America, in Charts.
Delece Smith-Barrow: H.B.C.U.s’ Sink-or-Swim Moment: These storied schools are largely responsible for the nation’s black middle class. They are also on the brink of financial ruin.
Tanzina Vega: Wage gap between blacks and whites is worst in nearly 40 years.
BOOKS
Mehrsa Baradaran: The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap.
Mehrsa Baradaran: How the Other Half Banks: Exclusion, Exploitation, and the Threat to Democracy.
Anne Fleming: City of Debtors: A Century of Fringe Finance.
Alford Young Jr.: From the Edge of the Ghetto: African Americans and the World of Work.
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