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100	1		_aMcGhee, Heather C., _eauthor. _939825
245	1	4	_aThe sum of us : _bwhat racism costs everyone and how we can prosper together / _cHeather McGhee.
246	3	0	_aWhat racism costs everyone and how we can prosper together
250			_aFirst edition.
300			_axxiii, 415 pages : _billustrations, maps ; _c25 cm
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0	0	_tAn old story : the zero-sum hierarchy -- _tRacism drained the pool -- _tGoing without -- _tIgnoring the canary -- _tNo one fights alone -- _tNever a real democracy -- _tLiving apart -- _tThe same sky -- _tThe hidden wound -- _tThe solidarity dividend.
520			_aIn the 1950s and 1960s, white officials in communities across the country opted to drain their public swimming pools rather than integrate them. Generations later, America still hasn't recognized that racism as a cost for everyone. But our future can look different. Heather McGhee's specialty is the American economy - and the mystery of why it so often fails the American public. From the 2008 financial crisis to rising student debt to collapsing public infrastructure, she found a common root problem: racism. But not just in the most obvious indignities for people of color. Racism has costs for white people, too. It is the common denominator of our most vexing public problems, the core dysfunction of our democracy and constitutive of the spiritual and moral crisis that grip us all. But how did this happen? And is there a way out? McGhee embarks on a deeply personal journey across the country from Maine to Mississippi to California, tallying what we lose when we buy into the zero-sum paradigm - the idea that progress for some of us must come at the expense of others. Along the way, she meets white people who confide in her about losing their homes, their dreams, and their shots at better jobs to the toxic mix of American racism and greed. This is the story of how public goods in this country - from parks and pools to functioning schools - have become private luxuries; of how unions collapsed, wages stagnated, and inequality increased; and of how this country, unique among the world's advanced economies, has thwarted universal healthcare. But in unlikely places of worship and work, McGhee finds proof of what she calls the Solidarity Dividend: the benefits we gain when people come together across race to accomplish what we simply can't do on our own. The Sum of Us is a brilliant analysis of how we arrived here: divided and self-destructing, materially rich but spiritually starved and vastly unequal. McGhee marshals economic and sociological research to tell an irrefutable story of racism's costs, but at the heart of the book are the humble stories of people yearning to be part of a better America, including white supremacy's collateral victims: white people themselves. With startling empathy, this heartfelt message from a Black woman to a multiracial America leaves us with a new vision for a future in which we finally realize that life can be more than a zero-sum game. --
650		0	_aRacism _zUnited States.
650		0	_aRace discrimination _zUnited States.
650	1	2	_aRacism.
650	2	2	_aRace Relations.
651		0	_aUnited States _xRace relations _xEconomic aspects. _939826
651		2	_aUnited States.
655		4	_aNonfiction. _914259
776	0	8	_iOnline version: _aMcGhee, Heather C. _tSum of us _bFirst edition. _dNew York : One World, [2021] _z9780525509578 _w(DLC) 2020044568
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