The racial wealth gap is the largest of the economic disparities between Black and white
Americans, with a white-to-Black per capita wealth ratio of 6 to 1. It is also among the most …

This fourth edition of Racist America is significantly revised and updated, with an eye toward
racism issues arising regularly in our contemporary era. This edition incorporates many …

Technical changes in the first half of the nineteenth century led to unprecedented economic
growth and capital formation throughout Western Europe; and yet Ireland hardly participated …

New benchmark estimates of Black-White income ratios for 1870, 1900, and 1940 are
combined with standard post-World War census data. The resulting time series reveals that …

Some time after English writer Henry Fairlie emigrated to the United States in the mid 1960s,
he visited Thomas Jefferson's Monticello plantation and took the standard tour. When the …

RACISM: WHY REPARATIONS ARE IN ORDER FOR AFRICAN AMERICANS Page 1
DOCUMENTING THE COSTS OF SLAVERY, SEGREGATION, AND CONTEMPORARY …

We examine the history of US land policy, with a focus on the Homestead Acts, underscoring
the precarious position of African Americans during the homesteading period. We discuss …

The racial wealth gap is the largest of the economic gaps between Black and white
Americans, with a white-to-Black average wealth ratio of of 6 to 1 in 2019. Further, the gap …

This paper identifies an exogenous variation in post–Civil War policy to examine the effect of
land reform on racial inequality. The Cherokee Nation, located in what is now Oklahoma …

Could racial wealth inequality have been reduced if freed slaves had been granted land
following the Civil War? This paper exploits a plausibly exogenous variation in policies of …