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008			200727t20212021nyua b 001 0 eng
010			_a2020033574
020			_a1501755137
020			_a9781501755132
035			_a(OCoLC)1182021019
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050		4	_aE184 .A1 _aF74 2021
082	0	0	_a330.9730089 _223
100	1		_aFreeman, Jim, _d1976-
245	1	0	_aRich thanks to racism : _bhow the ultra-wealthy profit from racial injustice / _cJim Freeman.
264		1	_aIthaca, New York : _bILR Press, an imprint of Cornell University Press, _c2021.
264		4	_c©2021.
300			_ax, 295 pages : _billustrations ; _c24 cm.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0		_aIntroduction -- The Racism Profiteers -- The Squandered Brilliance of Our Disposable Youth -- Tough-on-Crime for You, Serve-and-Protect for Me -- From Jim Crow to Juan Crow -- Defeating Goliath -- Conclusion : A Declaration of Interdependence.
520			_a"In this book, Jim Freeman suggests that the biggest reason America cannot get beyond its racial divide is as simple as it disturbing: Racism is enormously profitable. Rich Thanks to Racism exposes a group of Corporate America and Wall Street billionaires as a driving force behind the public policies that perpetuate racial inequities and cause severe harm to communities of color across the country"-- _cProvided by publisher.
520			_a"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." -- _cBook jacket.
650		0	_aMinorities _zUnited States _xEconomic conditions.
650		0	_aRace discrimination _xEconomic aspects _zUnited States.
650		0	_aRacism _xEconomic aspects _zUnited States.
651		0	_aUnited States _xRace relations _xEconomic aspects.
776	0	8	_iOnline version: _aFreeman, Jim, 1976- _tRich thanks to racism _dIthaca, [New York] : ILR Press, an imprint of Cornell University Press, 2021 _z9781501755156 _w(DLC) 2020033575.
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