Black Wall Street Journey Reading List
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- Black Picket Fences: Privilege and Peril among the Black Middle Class
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- Mary Pattillo
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- Cycle of Segregation: Social Processes and Residential Stratification
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- Maria Krysan and Kyle Crowder
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- The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap
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- Mehrsa Baradaran
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- The South Side: A Portrait of Chicago and American Segregation
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- Natalie Y. Moore
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- From Here to Equality: Reparations for Black Americans in the Twenty-First Century
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- William A. Darity and A. Kirsten Mullen
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- Toxic Inequality: How America’s Wealth Gap Destroys Mobility, Deepens the Racial Divide, & Threatens Our Future
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- Thomas Shapiro
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- The Whiteness of Wealth: How the Tax System Impoverishes Black Americans -- and How We Can Fix It
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- Dorothy A. Brown
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- Race For Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership
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- Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
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- The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
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- Richard Rothstein
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- Binga: The Rise and Fall of Chicago’s First Black Banker
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- Don Hayner
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- Race Brokers: Housing Markets and Segregation in the 21st Century Urban America
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- Elizabeth Korver-Glenn
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- Caste: The Origins of Our Discontent
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- Isabel Wilkerson
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- The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together
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- Heather McGhee
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- Soul City: Race, Equality, and the Lost Dream of an American Utopia
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- Thomas Healy
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- Building the Black Metropolis: African American Entrepreneurship in Chicago
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- Robert E. Weems and Jason P. Chambers
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- Family Properties: How the Struggle over Race and Real Estate Transformed Chicago and Urban America
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- Beryl Satter
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- Capitalism & Slavery
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- Eric Williams
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- Kings: The True Story of Chicago's Policy Kings and Numbers Racketeers
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- Nathan A. Thompson
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- Know Your Price: Valuing Black Lives and Property in America's Black Cities
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- Andre M. Perry
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- The Defender: How the Legendary Black Newspaper Changed America
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- Ethan Michaeli
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- Three Girls From Bronzeville: A Uniquely American Memoir of Race, Fate, and Sisterhood
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- Dawn Turner
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- Ghosts in the Schoolyard: Racism and School Closings on Chicago's South Side
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- Eve L. Ewing
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- The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
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- Isabel Wilkerson
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- Black Boy
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- Richard Wright
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- The Promised Land: The Great Black Migration and How it Changed America
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- Nicholas Lemann
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- Daddy Was a Number Runner
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- Louise Meriwether
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- The Merchant Prince of Black Chicago: Anthony Overton and the Building of a Financial Empire
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- Robert E. Weems Jr.
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- Lifting as They Climbed: Mapping a History of Black Women on Chicago's South Side
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- Mariame Kaba & Essence McDowell
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- Destination Chicago Jazz
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- Sandor Demlinger & John Steiner
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- Bronzeville Boys and Girls
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- Gwendolyn Brooks