The Sum Of Us - What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together (lydbok) av Heather McGhee
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Heather McGhee (forfatter), Heather McGhee (innleser)

The Sum Of Us lydbok

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What would make a society drain its public swimming baths and fill them with concrete rather than opening them to everyone? Economics researcher Heather McGhee sets out across America to learn why white voters so often act against their own interests. Why do they block changes that would help them, and even destroy their own advantages, whenever people of colour also stand to benefit? Their tragedy is that they believe they can't win unless somebody else loses. But this is a lie. McGhee marsha…

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Undertittel What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together
Forfattere Heather McGhee (forfatter), Heather McGhee (innleser)
Forlag Profile Audio
Utgitt 15 april 2021
Lengde 11:09
Sjanger Politikk og samfunn, Dokumentar og fakta
Språk English
Format mp3
DRM-beskyttelse App-only
ISBN 9781782839439
What would make a society drain its public swimming baths and fill them with concrete rather than opening them to everyone? Economics researcher Heather McGhee sets out across America to learn why white voters so often act against their own interests. Why do they block changes that would help them, and even destroy their own advantages, whenever people of colour also stand to benefit? Their tragedy is that they believe they can't win unless somebody else loses. But this is a lie. McGhee marshals overwhelming economic evidence, and a profound well of empathy, to reveal the surprising truth: even racists lose out under white supremacy. And US racism is everybody's problem. As McGhee shows, it was bigoted lending policies that laid the ground for the 2008 financial crisis. There can be little prospect of tackling global climate change until America's zero-sum delusions are defeated. The Sum of Us offers a priceless insight into the workings of prejudice, and a timely invitation to solidarity among all humans, 'to piece together a new story of who we could be to one another'.