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Aug 24, 2021 · Chapter 1: an old story: the zero sum hierarchy. White people see race issues as a zero sum game. Colonizers shaped their racist ideologies to justify their genocide and enslavement against black and brown people. They set up a zero sum relationship between master and slave. The formula for profit = revenue – cost.
In The Sum of Us, policy researcher Heather McGhee argues that the U.S. lags far behind other developed countries in fields like healthcare, education, pollution, and voting rights because of the way that racism shapes American politics. Specifically‚ she argues that many white voters view the world through a zero-sum paradigm: they see ...
Analysis. From building state universities in the 1800s to paying veterans’ tuition through the G.I. Bill after World War II, the U.S. government long provided massive support for Americans to attend college. In the 1970s, when nearly all students were white, public universities were primarily funded by the government and tuition cost an ...
Summary. Analysis. McGhee visits Lewiston, a former mill town in Maine, which is the U.S.’s oldest, whitest state. Industrial decline has crushed Lewiston’s economy since the 1960s and 1970s, so it’s easy to see the city through the zero-sum paradigm: “ progress for people of color means a loss for white people.
Praise for THE SUM OF US “The Sum of Us is a powerhouse of a book about the deep, enduring, cross-cultural, multi-generational, and real-life cost of racist policy-making in the United States. . . . This is a book for every American, and I am grateful for McGhee’s research, her humanity, and her never-more-important teachings.”
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Feb 23, 2021 · But “The Sum of Us” is predicated on the idea that little will change until white people realize what racism has cost them too. The material legacy of slavery can be felt to this day, McGhee ...
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Feb 17, 2021 · Her new book makes the case that racial discrimination in the United States has been harmful to white Americans as well as people of color. The book is called "The Sum Of Us." You write about the ...
