种族财富差距：简史 （诺顿短篇丛书）梅尔萨·巴拉达兰The Racial Wealth Gap: A Brief History (A Norton Short)Mehrsa Baradaran

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Book Details

ISBN-13: 9780393881820

ISBN-10: 0393881822

Author: Mehrsa Baradaran

Publisher: WW Norton & Co

Imprint: WW Norton & Co

Format: Hardcover

Number of Pages: 192

Release Date: 14 March 2026

Weight: 332g

Dimensions: 218mm x 147mm x 20mm

Series: A Norton Short

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书籍简介

过去一个世纪以来，白人家庭和黑人家庭财富中位数之间的种族财富差距为何始终居高不下，从未缩小到六比一以下？种族与金融平等领域的专家梅尔萨·巴拉达兰（Mehrsa Baradaran）在这部内容丰富、通俗易懂的历史著作中试图解答这个问题。她指出，数十年来根植于白人至上主义的法律——从奴隶制和重建时期“四十英亩土地和一头骡子”的破碎承诺，到吉姆·克劳法和罗斯福新政时期的种族主义政策——限制了黑人获得资本、信贷、房屋所有权和其他财富创造途径的机会，同时却补贴了白人家庭日益增长的经济财富。

在《种族财富差距》一书中，巴拉达兰概述了造成白人和黑人家庭经济命运分化的两大根本力量：一是白人美国人的财富积累，他们在解放后的一个半世纪里一直系统性地获得财政补贴；二是黑人美国人的财富流失——无论是私刑暴力还是官方手段，例如允许黑人银行倒闭或在种族隔离的黑人社区修建高速公路。这些力量，再加上“黑人社区无法崛起是因为自身道德、智力或经济缺陷”这种种族主义观念，使得黑人家庭始终落后于白人家庭，尽管数十年来民权运动蓬勃发展，国家经济增长显著——这种根深蒂固的不公正只能通过赔偿来弥补。

《种族财富差距》一书令人义愤填膺，又发人深省，它对美国紧迫的系统性问题之一进行了深刻的剖析。

Why has the racial wealth gap between the median white households and median Black households remained stagnant over the past century, never narrowing below six to one? Leading expert on race and financial equality Mehrsa Baradaran attempts to answer this question in this sweeping yet accessible history. She shows how decades of the laws rooted in white supremacy—from slavery and the broken Reconstruction-era promise of “40 acres and a mule,” to the racist policies of the Jim Crow and New Deal eras—have restricted Black access to capital, credit, homeownership, and other mechanisms of wealth creation while subsidizing the rising economic fortunes of white families.

In The Racial Wealth Gap, Baradaran outlines two tectonic forces that have driven apart the economic fortunes of white and Black families: wealth creation for white Americans, who have been systematically receiving financial subsidies in the century and a half since emancipation, and wealth destruction for Black Americans—either by vigilante violence or by official means, such as allowing Black banks to collapse or building highways through segregated Black communities. These forces, combined with the racist notion that Black communities fail to rise because of their own moral, intellectual, or economic shortcomings, have kept Black families behind their white counterparts, despite decades of civil rights activism and national economic growth—a deep injustice that can only be achieved through reparations.

An infuriating and compelling read, The Racial Wealth Gap offers a devastating analysis of one of America’s most pressing systemic issues.

作者简介

梅尔萨·巴拉达兰是加州大学尔湾分校的法学教授，也是广受好评的《金钱的颜色》和《另一半人如何理财》的作者。她居住在加利福尼亚州尔湾市。

Mehrsa Baradaran is a law professor at University of California, Irvine, and the acclaimed author of The Color of Money and How the Other Half Banks. She lives in Irvine, California.