![]() ![]() Not only could black banks not “control the black dollar” due to the dynamics of bank depositing and lending but they drained black capital into white banks, leaving the black economy with the scraps.īaradaran challenges the long-standing notion that black banking and community self-help is the solution to the racial wealth gap. The catch-22 of black banking is that the very institutions needed to help communities escape the deep poverty caused by discrimination and segregation inevitably became victims of that same poverty. Instead, housing segregation, racism, and Jim Crow credit policies created an inescapable, but hard to detect, economic trap for black communities and their banks. Studying these institutions over time, Mehrsa Baradaran challenges the myth that black communities could ever accumulate wealth in a segregated economy. 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. ![]() More than 150 years later, that number has barely budged. ![]() When the Emancipation Proclamation was signed in 1863, the black community owned less than one percent of the United States’ total wealth. It explains so much about the moment… Beautiful, heartbreaking work.”-Ta-Nehisi Coates On PBS’s Amanpour & Co., watch Mehrsa Baradaran explain how Black communities have been systemically shut out of the American banking system: ![]()
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