Paying the Social Debt - What White America Owes Black America

Richard F. America here redefines the complex problems of racial economic injustice, poverty, inequality, and lagging competitiveness and productivity in the United States. In a controversial analysis, the author argues that there is a true debt owed by White America to Black America, that this debt is significant, and that it has now come due. He estimates the size of Whites'' debt to Blacks, shows how that debt came to be, and suggests creative ways of paying it back. This book argues persuasively that the social and racial problems in the United States cannot be solved until we acknowledge that the haves truly and literally owe money to the have-nots.>

Sommario

Preface
Introduction
Measuring the Social Debt
Viewing Social Policy through the Restitution Lens
How to Pay the Debt
Creative Antitrust: Subsidized Social Divestiture
Narrow Inequalities in Income and Wealth
Affirmative Action, Competitiveness and Productivity
Invest in Reducing Crime
Discourage Immature Parenting and Welfare Dependency
Invest in Persuasive Communications
The Social Debt and Tax Reform
Security, Productivity, Competitiveness, Economic Strategy, and Restitution
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index

Info autore

RICHARD F. AMERICA has been director of Urban Programs and lecturer at the University of California, Berkeley, and a visiting lecturer at the Stanford Business School. He is the author or editor of several books including The Wealth of Races (Greenwood, 1990) and Paying the Social Debt (Praeger, 1993).

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Richard F America, Richard F. America, America Richard F.
• Editore: Bloomsbury Academic
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 18.04.2024
• EAN: 9798765123775
• ISBN: 9798765123775
• Pagine: 160
• Dimensioni: 150 mm x 232 mm x 10 mm
• Categorie: Narrativa > Romanzi > Epistole, diari; Economics, Politics & government, Politics and government, Black & Asian Studies, Relating to African American / Black American people, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General, Race and Ethnicity; African American Studies