William Darity Jr is the Samuel DuBois Cook
Professor of Public Policy, African and African American Studies,
and Economics at Duke University.
A. Kirsten Mullen is a writer, folklorist, museum
consultant, and lecturer whose work focuses on race, art, history,
and politics.
Essential to any debate over the need for and way to achieve
meaningful large-scale reparations." —Kirkus Reviews
“What’s the last great book you read?”
“I can’t just name one. I want to highlight three great books I
recently read on America’s political economy. The first, Race for
Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black
Homeownership, by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, is an expertly told
history of the post-civil rights emergence of what Taylor terms
“predatory inclusion”. The second, From Here to Equality:
Reparations for Black Americans in the Twenty-First Century, by
William A. Darity Jr. and A. Kirsten Mullen, is the best booklong
case for reparations. The third, The Broken Heart of America: St.
Louis and the Violent History of the United States, by Walter
Johnson, adroitly examines a U.S. history of imperial racial
capitalism with its crosswinds centered in St. Louis.” - Dr. Ibram
Kendi, New York Times, March 20201
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