The Sum of Us, What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together

One of todays 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 everyonenot just for people of color.This is the book Ive been waiting for. Ibram X. Kendi, #1New York Timesbestselling author ofHow to Be an Antiracist Heather McGhees specialty is the American economyand the mystery of why it so often fails the American public. From the financial crisis to rising student debt to collapsing public infrastructure, she found a common root problem: racism. 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...