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Submitted by Prometheus 6 on June 6, 2006 - 12:56pm.
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Right interesting cover they have this week.

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The Color of Wealth
Submitted by Sunny (not verified) on June 6, 2006 - 2:03pm.
I stumbled onto your site a little over a week ago, and have enjoyed it ever since. I haven’t read this yet, but I wanted to send this book as a resource for those who may be interested. Maybe you’ve heard of it. The Color of Wealth, by Meizhu Lui, Barbara Robles, Betsy Leondar-Wright is the first book to demonstrate the decisive influence of government on Americans' net worth. For every dollar owned by the average white family in the United States, the average family of color has less than a dime. Why do people of color have so little wealth? The Color of Wealth lays bare a dirty secret: for centuries, people of color have been barred by laws and by discrimination from participating in government wealth-building programs that benefit white Americans.
American Taxation, American Slavery
Submitted by ptcruiser on June 6, 2006 - 6:49pm.

A newly published book entitled American Taxation, American Slavery written by Robin L. Einhorn should be added to this list as well.

One reviewer W. Elliot Brownlee author of Federal Taxation in America: A Short History wrote "(T)his ambitious book reveals how slaveholders and their congressional representatives shaped institutions of public finance to protect the institution of slavery...American Taxation, American Slavery is likely to become the most important historical assessment of democracy in early America to emerge in recent years."

I think the historical record that is being revealed by scholars is making it increasingly difficult, if not throughly untenable, for neocons and neoliberals to continue to argue that the great disparities in accumulated wealth and assets that exists between whites and blacks in this country is little more than an accident of history or the result of blacks failing to make sufficient effort to overcome the impediments placed in their way prior to the passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. The cumulative effects and consequences of slavery continue to play an important role in American society.

have you read the comments?
Submitted by ConPermiso on June 6, 2006 - 9:42pm.

man...white people got it bad. 

i mean, you can look at the cover as art if you wish...but that doesn't explain the expressions on the two brown faces.  i think that some of the commenters believe that black men and women look like that everyday...so don't understand why black people would take offense.

"A newly published book
Submitted by Ourstorian on June 7, 2006 - 9:51am.

"A newly published book entitled American Taxation, American Slavery written by Robin L. Einhorn should be added to this list as well."

I read Einhorn's essay about the book on his website. This is a massively important study that further exposes the inequities upon which this nation was founded. Read it in conjunction with Slave Nation, In the Matter of Color, Complicity: How the North Promoted, Prolonged and Profited from Slavery, "Negro President": Jefferson and the Slave Power, and Edmund Morgan's classic text: American Slavery, American Freedom. These books (and there are others too numerous to mention here) expose the centrality of slavery and antiblack racism in the establishment of the nation and its ethos.

Thanks for the heads-up, PT.