Heather McGhee&rsquo\;s specialty is the A merican economy&mdash\;and the mystery of why it so often fails the Americ an public. From the financial crisis to rising student debt to collapsing public infrastructure\, she found a common root problem: racism. But not j ust in the most obvious indignities for people of color. Racism has costs for white people\, too. The Sum of Us \;is a brilliant analys is of how we arrived here: divided and self-destructing\, materially rich but spiritually starved and vastly unequal. McGhee marshals economic and s ociological research to paint an irrefutable story of racism&rsquo\;s cost s\, but at the heart of the book are the humble stories of people yearning to be part of a better America\, including white supremacy&rsquo\;s colla teral victims: white people themselves. With startling empathy\, this hear tfelt message from a Black woman to a multiracial America leaves us with a new vision for a future in which we finally realize that life can be more than a zero-sum game. (Adapted from the publisher)
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