[cure-news] The Color of Wealth

[Ida Hakim]

THE COLOR OF WEALTH
The Story Behind the U.S. Racial Wealth Divide

By Meizhu Lui, Barbara Robles, Betsy Leondar-Wright,
Rose Brewer, Rebecca Adamson


The Color of Wealth is a powerful contribution because it shows how
contemporary wealth differences evolve from pivotal points in our
history, and explains how public policy, even when well meaning,
reinforces existing inequality. This book is an important contribution
to critical work on race and economics.?

- Julianne Malveaux, economist and author of Wall Street, Main Street
and the Side Street: A Mad Economist Takes a Stroll

For every dollar owned by the average white family in the United
States, the average family of color has 18 cents. 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 have benefited white Americans.

This accessible book?published in conjunction with one of the country?s
leading economics education organizations, United for a Fair
Economy?makes the case that until government policy tackles disparities
in wealth, not just income, the United States will never have racial or
economic justice.

Written by five leading experts on the racial wealth divide who recount
the asset-building histories of Native Americans, Latinos, African
Americans, Asian Americans, and European Americans, this book is a
uniquely comprehensive multicultural history of American wealth. With
its focus on public policies?how, for example, many post?World War II
GI Bill programs helped whites only?The Color of Wealth is the first
book to demonstrate the decisive influence of government on Americans?
net worth.

The co-authors are connected with United for a Fair Economy, a national
nonpartisan organization based in Boston, Massachusetts, that campaigns
against growing income- and wealth inequality and inspires action to
reduce economic inequality.


THE COLOR OF WEALTH
Book Tour Dates

Sponsor the Book Tour

Color of Wealth Author Event (Quail Ridge)
Wednesday, September 13, 7:00 pm
Raleigh, NC

Capitol Hill Book Event -- Stay tuned for more info!
Tuesday, September 26, 2006
Washington, DC

Color of Wealth Author Event (Olsson's Bookstore)
Tuesday, September 26, 7:00 pm
Washington, DC

SVN Fall Conference 2006
Thursday, October 12-15, 2006
Tucson, AZ

Color of Wealth Author Event (Shaman Drum) -- Stay tuned for more info!
Thursday, October 19, 2006
Ann Arbor, MI

Talking Leaves Bookstore Reading -- Stay tuned for more info!
Saturday, October 21, 2006
Buffalo, NY

Color of Wealth Author Event (Busboy's and Poets) -- Stay tuned for
more info!
Wednesday, October 25, 6:30 - 8:00 pm
Washington, DC

Howard/American University Book Forum -- Stay tuned for more info!
Thursday, October 26, 2006
Washington, DC

Ford Hall Forum -- Stay tuned for more info!
Thursday, November 9, 6:30 pm
Chestnut Hill, MA

Color of Wealth Book Signing
November 9, 2006
Phoenix, AZ

http://www.racialwealthdivide.org/
>From hakimida at reparationsthecure.org  Thu Sep 28 06:08:27 2006
From: hakimida at reparationsthecure.org (Ida Hakim)
Date: Thu Sep 28 06:02:29 2006
Subject: [cure-news] Slave Reparations Case - Hear Oral Arguments 
Message-ID: <451BBB3B.9050000 at reparationsthecure.org>

Friends and colleagues,

Deadria Farmer-Paellman called a few moments ago from Chicago and gave 
me the link (below) to the actual oral arguments heard today in her case 
(05-3265, 05-3266, 05-3305; Farmer-Paellmann v. Brown).  The exchange 
between the attorneys and the judges is riveting and includes almost all 
of the arguments leveled *against* reparations for the TransAtlantic 
Slave Trade.  It gets emotional at times with heated debate between the 
plaintiff's attorneys (Bruce Afran, Roger Wareham and Barbara Ratliff) 
and judges.  Note especially the applause after Attorney Ratliff's 
compelling arguments for why the judges should hear the case.  Note also 
the mentioning of the Tulsa Reparations case.

You can find the written briefs submitted for the case at:  
http://www.ca7.uscourts.gov/briefs.htm
 
Oral Testimony
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http://www.ca7.uscourts.gov/tmp/WO12GZYG.mp3