Noneconomists often think that economists' approach to race is almost exclusively one of laissez-faire. Racism, Liberalism, and Economics argues that economists' ideas are more complicated.

2009

Level: mittel

Race, Liberalism, And Economics

Colander, David; Prasch, Robert E.; Shetz, Falguni A.

University of Michigan Press

Racism and discrimination have choked economic opportunity for African Americans at nearly every turn. In From Here to Equality, William Darity Jr. and A. Kirsten Mullen confront these injustices head-on and make the most comprehensive case to date for economic reparations for U.S. descendants of slavery.

2020

Level: mittel

From Here to Equality

William A. Darity Jr., A. Kirsten Mullen

The University of North Carolina Press

In the last half century, economics has taken over from anthropology the role of drawing the powerful conceptual worldviews that organize knowledge and inform policy in both domestic and international contexts. Until now however, the colonial roots of economic theory have remained relatively unstudied. This book changes that.

2004

Level: mittel

Postcolonialism Meets Economics

S. Charusheela, Eiman O. Zein-Elabdin

Psychology Press

"Dunkler Kontinent", "Elendsgebiet" oder "Rohstofflager der Welt", noch immer denken und reden wir über Afrika in Stereotypen. Und noch immer ist der Maßstab, mit dem wir den Zustand und die Perspektive des Kontinents beurteilen, das Entwicklungsmodell des Westens, selbst wenn sich dieses weltweit als höchst zerstörerisch erwiesen hat.

2019

Level: mittel

Afrotopia

Felwine Sarr

Matthes & Seitz Verlag

Wealth inequality between Black and white people in the US barely has changed in the last 150 years. In her book "The Color of Money. Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap" Mehrsa Baradaran, analyzes why also Black banks have not successfully changed this and not enabled Black wealth on a broader scale.

2017

Level: mittel

The Color of Money

Mehrsa Baradaran

Harvard University Press