Reviews for Black Labor, White Wealth: The Search for Power and Economic Justice

The average rating for Black Labor, White Wealth: The Search for Power and Economic Justice based on 2 reviews is 4.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2014-11-04 00:00:00 Rich Sucik I don't concur with every conclusion Dr. Anderson makes in the book, but his overall analysis cannot be denied - that enough White wealth has been generated consistently, time and again, from the ingenuity, creativity, and hard work of Black peoples in this country, and further, that laws and social paradigms were implemented in the Americas with the express purpose of preventing Black peoples from benefiting and prospering from their own ingenuity. Anderson does not ask any Black alive today to hate or deal out reverse prejudice for the injustices of the past. But like any scholar, he takes a serious, hard look at the modern-day conditions of the Black man and his progeny in the Americas, and, I believe, correctly - via historical analysis - projects the lines backward into the past to reveal the root causes of those conditions. Anderson then comes forward in time to show how these policies of the past have consequences in the present, and what should be done to correct them. Read this book for an enlightening and thought-provoking investigation into what ails Black America and why, and what should be done to change the historic conditions that have led Black people where they are.

Review # 2 was written on 2015-08-03 00:00:00 Daniel Porras It was phenomenal. It opened my eyes to seeing some things in a new way, such as the idea that the abolition movement failed because slavery wasn't to be battled as a moral issue but an economic one. And due to this failure, they actually helped perpetuate the very institution they supposedly sought to destroy.