{"product_id":"the-sum-of-us-what-racism-costs-everyone-and-how-we-can-prosper-together","title":"The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e McGhee, Heather\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBrand:\u003c\/b\u003e One World\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eColor:\u003c\/b\u003e Multicolor\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding:\u003c\/b\u003e hardcover\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber Of Pages:\u003c\/b\u003e 448\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date:\u003c\/b\u003e 16-02-2021\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDetails:\u003c\/b\u003e NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD • One of today’s most insightful and influential thinkers offers a powerful exploration of inequality and the lesson that generations of Americans have failed to learn: Racism has a cost for everyone—not just for people of color.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nWINNER OF THE PORCHLIGHT BUSINESS BOOK AWARD • ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Time, The Washington Post, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Ms. magazine, BookRiot, Library Journal\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n“This is the book I’ve been waiting for.”—Ibram X. Kendi, #1 New York Times bestselling author of How to Be an Antiracist\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nLook for the author’s podcast, The Sum of Us, based on this book!\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nHeather McGhee’s specialty is the American economy—and the mystery of why it so often fails the American public. From the financial crisis of 2008 to rising student debt to collapsing public infrastructure, she found a root problem: racism in our politics and policymaking. But not just in the most obvious indignities for people of color. Racism has costs for white people, too. It is the common denominator of our most vexing public problems, the core dysfunction of our democracy and constitutive of the spiritual and moral crises that grip us all. But how did this happen? And is there a way out?\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nMcGhee embarks on a deeply personal journey across the country from Maine to Mississippi to California, tallying what we lose when we buy into the zero-sum paradigm—the idea that progress for some of us must come at the expense of others. Along the way, she meets white people who confide in her about losing their homes, their dreams, and their shot at better jobs to the toxic mix of American racism and greed. This is the story of how public goods in this country—from parks and pools to functioning schools—have become private luxuries; of how unions collapsed, wages stagnated, and inequality increased; and of how this country, unique among the world’s advanced economies, has thwarted universal healthcare.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nBut in unlikely places of worship and work, McGhee finds proof of what she calls the Solidarity Dividend: the benefits we gain when people come together across race to accomplish what we simply can’t do on our own. The Sum of Us is not only a brilliant analysis of how we arrived here but also a heartfelt message, delivered with startling empathy, from a black woman to a multiracial America. It leaves us with a new vision for a future in which we finally realize that life can be more than a zero-sum game.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nLONGLISTED FOR THE ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEAN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780525509561\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePackage Dimensions:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.5 x 6.5 x 1.5 inches\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguages:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"One World","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50234419577136,"sku":"Trans_9780525509561","price":1838.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0690\/9968\/4144\/files\/81jptZmur7L.jpg?v=1761030961","url":"https:\/\/www.retailmaharaj.com\/bn\/products\/the-sum-of-us-what-racism-costs-everyone-and-how-we-can-prosper-together","provider":"Retail Maharaj","version":"1.0","type":"link"}