LibGuides: Antiracism Resources: Economics

Reports

The Economic Impact of Closing the Racial Wealth Gap - August 2019
McKinsey & Company report by Nick Noel, Duwain Pinder, Shelley Stewart III and Jason Wright.
The Business Case for Racial Equity: A Strategy for Growth
2018 W. K. Kellogg Foundation report by Ani Turner
Diversity Wins: How Inclusion Matters - McKinsey & Company
May 2020.
Darity et al.(2017) "What We Get Wrong in Closing the Racial Wealth Gap".
From the Samuel DuBois Cook Center on Social Equity

Websites

Racial Equity Tools
Racial Equity Tools is designed to support individuals and groups working to achieve racial equity. This site offers tools, research, tips, curricula and ideas for people who want to increase their own understanding and to help those working toward justice at every level – in systems, organizations, communities and the culture at large.

Videos

13th - Directed by Ava DuVernay (Available for free via Netflix on YouTube)

Books

The Color of Money by Mehrsa Baradaran
Call Number: E-book
ISBN: 9780674982284
Publication Date: 2017-09-14
The Color of Law by Richard Rothstein
Call Number: Available in print & Overdrive ebook & audio
ISBN: 9781631492853
Publication Date: 2017
Now This put together a compilation of Rothstein's talks to summarize some of his points: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2roWLzrqOjQ
The Economics of Race in the United States by Brendan O'Flaherty
Call Number: Online via EbookCentral
ISBN: 9780674368187
Publication Date: 2015
A Working People: A History of African American Workers Since Emancipation by Steven A. Reich
Call Number: Online via EbookCentral
ISBN: 9781442203327
Publication Date: 2013
Sharing the Prize: The Economics of the Civil Rights Revolution in the American South by Gavin Wright
Call Number: Onine via EbookCentral
ISBN: 9780674049338
Publication Date: 2013
Entrepreneurship and Self-Help among Black Americans by John Sibley Butler
Call Number: Online via EbookCentral
ISBN: 9780791458938
Publication Date: 2005
A classic originally published in 1991 with chapters on Durham, NC and Tulsa OK, and now with an updated chapter on present status.
Black Wealth / White Wealth: : A New Perspective on Racial Inequality by Melvin Oliver; Thomas Shapiro
Call Number: Available at NOBLE libraries.
ISBN: 9780415951661
Publication Date: 2006
10th Anniversary edition of a classic work.
What Unions No Longer Do by Jake Rosenfeld
Call Number: Online via EbookCentral
ISBN: 9780674725119
Publication Date: 2014
Black Asset Poverty and the Enduring Racial Divide by Lori Latrice Martin
Call Number: Stacks (2nd) HC110.P6 M32 2013
ISBN: 9781935049531
Publication Date: 2012

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