The Sum Of Us. What Racism Costs Everyone And How We Can Prosper Together

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Profile Trade
Publisher Place: London
Publisher Year: 2021
Edition: First Edition

Description: 415 pages. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in Fine condition throughout.

Publishers Description: LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARDWith intelligence and care (as well as with a trove of sometimes heartbreaking and sometimes heart-opening true stories) Heather McGhee shows us what racism has cost all of us - Elizabeth GilbertPicked for the Financial Times Summer Books by Gillian TettWhat would make a society drain its public swimming baths and fill them with concrete rather than opening them to everyone Economics researcher Heather McGhee sets out across America to learn why white voters so often act against their own interests. Why do they block changes that would help them, and even destroy their own advantages, whenever people of colour also stand to benefitTheir tragedy is that they believe they cant win unless somebody else loses. But this is a lie. McGhee marshals overwhelming economic evidence, and a profound well of empathy, to reveal the surprising truth: even racists lose out under white supremacy.And US racism is everybodys problem. As McGhee shows, it was bigoted lending policies that laid the ground for the 2008 financial crisis. There can be little prospect of tackling global climate change until Americas zero-sum delusions are defeated. The Sum of Us offers a priceless insight into the workings of prejudice, and a timely invitation to solidarity among all humans, to piece together a new story of who we could be to one another.

ISBN: 9781788169653