Rich Thanks to Racism (eBook)

How the Ultra-Wealthy Profit from Racial Injustice

Jim Freeman (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2021
312 Seiten
Ilr Press (Verlag)
978-1-5017-5514-9 (ISBN)

Infos

More than fifty years after the civil rights movement, there are still glaring racial inequities all across the United States. In Rich Thanks to Racism, Jim Freeman, one of the country's leading civil rights lawyers, explains why as he reveals the hidden strategy behind systemic racism. He details how the driving force behind the public policies that continue to devastate communities of color across the United States is a small group of ultra-wealthy individuals who profit mightily from racial inequality.

In this groundbreaking examination of "strategic racism," Freeman carefully dissects the cruel and deeply harmful policies within the education, criminal justice, and immigration systems to discover their origins and why they persist. He uncovers billions of dollars in aligned investments by Bill Gates, Charles Koch, Mark Zuckerberg, and a handful of other billionaires that are dismantling public school systems across the United States. He exposes how the greed of prominent US corporations and Wall Street banks was instrumental in creating the world's largest prison population and our most extreme anti-immigrant policies. Freeman also demonstrates how these "racism profiteers" prevent flagrant injustices from being addressed by pitting white communities against communities of color, obscuring the fact that the struggles faced by white people are deeply connected with those faced by people of color.

Rich Thanks to Racism is an invaluable road map for all those who recognize that the key to unlocking the United States' full potential is for more people of all races and ethnicities to prioritize racial justice.

Autor

Jim Freeman directs the Social Movement Support Lab at the University of Denver, which works with communities of color across the US to dismantle systemic racism and create positive social change. He is a graduate of Harvard Law School and the University of Notre Dame, and was an editor on the Harvard Law Review. He served under President Obama as a Commissioner on the White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for African Americans.

Inhalt

Introuction: Strategic Racism
1. The Racism Profiteers
2. The Squandered Brilliance of Our Disposable Youth
3. Tough-on-Crime for You, Serve-and-Protect for Me
4. From Jim Crow to Juan Crow
5. Defeating Goliath
Conclusion: A Declaration of Interdependence

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.4.2021
• Zusatzinfo: 1 line drawing, 5 charts
• Verlagsort: Ithaca
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 150 x 150 mm
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Unternehmensführung / Management
• Schlagworte: anti-immigrant policies • Bill Gates investments • billionaires’ influence • Black lives matter • Charles Koch • Civil Rights • Civil rights lawyer • communities of color • corporate interests • Discrimination • Diversity • education system dismantling • Equal Opportunity • Exclusion • exclusionary practices • greed and inequality • hidden strategy • Inequality • LA city council • Mark Zuckerberg • prison population growth • profiteers • public policies • Race • Race-Based College Admissions • racial inequities • Racial Justice • Racism • racism profiteers • school privatization • Social Justice • strategic racism • strategic racism, systemic racism, racism profiteers, racial inequality, school privatization • Supreme Court • Systemic Racism • systemic racism, profiteers, inequality, school privatization, black lives matter, discrimination, LA city council, diversity, race, white privilege, Race-Based College Admissions, Supreme Court, underrepresented minority • ultra-wealthy profiteers • underrepresented minority • united struggle • Wall Street banks • white privilege • white vs. color divide
• ISBN-10: 1-5017-5514-5 / 1501755145
• ISBN-13: 978-1-5017-5514-9 / 9781501755149