{"product_id":"the-plunder-of-black-america-how-the-racial-wealth-gap-was-made-hardcover","title":"The Plunder of Black America: How the Racial Wealth Gap Was Made - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eCalvin Schermerhorn\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe long history of the racial wealth gap in America told through the stories of seven Black families who struggled to build wealth over multiple generations\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Wealth is central to the American pursuit of happiness and is an overriding measure of well-being. Yet wealth is conspicuously absent from African American households. Why do some 3.5 million Black American families have zero or negative wealth? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Historian Calvin Schermerhorn traces four hundred years of Black dispossession and decapitalization--what Frederick Douglass called plunder--through the stories of families who have strived to earn and keep the fruits of their toils. Their struggles reveal that the ever-evolving strategies to strip Black income and wealth have been critical to sustaining a structure of racialized disadvantage. These accounts also tell of the quiet heroism of those who worked to overcome obstacles and defy the plunder. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e From the story of Anthony and Mary Johnson, abducted from Angola and brought to Virginia in 1619, to the enslaved Black workers dispossessed by the Custis-Washington family, to Venture Smith (born Broteer Furro), who purchased his freedom, to three generations of a family enslaved in the South who moved north after Emancipation, to the Tulsa massacre and the subprime lending crisis, Schermerhorn shows that we cannot reckon with today's racial wealth inequality without understanding its unrelenting role in American history.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCalvin Schermerhorn\u003c\/b\u003e is a professor of history in the School of Historical, Philosophical, and Religious Studies at Arizona State University. His books include \u003ci\u003eThe Business of Slavery and the Rise of American Capitalism, 1815-1860\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eUnrequited Toil: A History of United States Slavery\u003c\/i\u003e. He lives in Tempe, AZ.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 304\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.06 x 9.48 x 6.45 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 11, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51978322215213,"sku":"9780300258950","price":28.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0938\/3185\/6429\/files\/L9uN8oaDDR9780300258950.webp?v=1775801610","url":"https:\/\/ishookbooks.com\/products\/the-plunder-of-black-america-how-the-racial-wealth-gap-was-made-hardcover","provider":"iShook Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}