Part history, part economics, and part advocacy, this book will appeal to a broad readership.- CHOICE, A timely and vital contribution to national discussions about reparations. propose that Congress institute reparations for Black persons who can document that they had at least one enslaved ancestor in the US after the formation of the republic.

Kirsten Mullen draw on both journalistic and scholarly sources to make a strong case for cash payments to Black descendants of slaves.a rich historical account of how the economic inequalities between Black and white Americans were created and perpetuated through centuries of slavery and the legally enforced systems of discrimination and political disfranchisement that followed.Darity and Mullen provide a detailed analysis of the deep disparities in wealth, income, education, and other measures of well-being that have persisted since emancipation.- The Nation, Essential to any debate over the need for and way to achieve meaningful large-scale reparations.- Kirkus Reviews, This book underscores slavery's deleterious impact on descendants of America's four million enslaved persons emancipated in 1865. Certainly, From Here to Equality is the most comprehensive book today on the political economy of reparations.- The American Journal of Economics and Sociology, Reparations are having a moment.In From Here to Equality, William A. The national dialogue on reparations has gained strength from the work of Darity and Mullen.

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