Indivisible Akron Book Club | ‘The Sum of Us’
This month we’re reading “The Sum of Us” by Heather McGhee.
The Indivisible Akron book club has chosen “The Sum of Us” by Heather McGhee.
The short description: “Racism has a cost for everyone — not just for people of color.”
The longer description, from Bookshop.org: “Heather McGhee’s specialty is the American economy—and the mystery of why it so often fails the American public. From the financial crisis of 2008 to rising student debt to collapsing public infrastructure, she found a root problem: racism in our politics and policymaking. 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 this happen? And is there a way out?”