Resources That Lead To A Better Understanding
Pro-Black Pro-Life recommends the following books and articles.
The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap
When the Emancipation Proclamation was signed in 1863, the black community owned less than one percent of the United States’ total wealth. More than 150 years later, that number has barely budged. The Color of Money pursues the persistence of this racial wealth gap by focusing on the generators of wealth in the black community: black banks. Studying these institutions over time, Mehrsa Baradaran challenges the myth that black communities could ever accumulate wealth in a segregated economy. Instead, housing segregation, racism, and Jim Crow credit policies created an inescapable, but hard to detect, economic trap for black communities and their banks.
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The Holy Spirit & Social Justice Interdisciplinary Global Perspectives: History, Race & Culture by Antipas L. Harris
A critical examination of historical, social and cultural issues that challenge the Christian community through the lens of major scholars within the contemporary renewal movement
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Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction and the Meaning of Liberty by Dorothy Roberts
In 1997, this groundbreaking book made a powerful entrance into the national conversation on race. It exposed America’s systemic abuse of Black women’s bodies. These abuses pointed to the degradation of Black motherhood—and the exclusion of Black women’s reproductive needs in mainstream feminist and civil rights agendas.
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The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America by Richard Rothstein
New York Times Bestseller • Notable Book of the Year • Editors’ Choice Selection
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