Black Authors Book Club

Join us for our book club, discussing books by Black authors. We are creating this space for all readers to share & learn about the Black experience, and books that reflect that perspective.

In The Sum of Us, policy researcher Heather McGhee argues that the U.S. lags far behind other developed countries in fields like healthcare, education, pollution, and voting rights because of the way that racism shapes American politics. Specifically‚ she argues that many white voters see politics as a competition between themselves and people of color, and they think that, in order for themselves to win, people of color must lose. Thus, these white voters reject policies that help nonwhite people, even when those policies would actually benefit everybody.

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