Audiobooks, capital, banks, slavery, regulation, choice, racism, and the racial wealth gap. Mehrsa Baradaran joins the show for the fourth time to talk about her latest book. Recorded in front of a live audience at the University of Georgia School of Law.
This show’s links:
Mehrsa Baradaran’s faculty profile (http://www.law.uga.edu/profile/mehrsa-baradaran) and academic writing (https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=1178148)
Mehrsa Baradaran, The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap (https://www.amazon.com/Color-Money-Black-Racial-Wealth/dp/0674970950)
Barack Obama, The President's Role in Advancing Criminal Justice Reform (http://harvardlawreview.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/811-866-Online-Rev-vf.pdf)
Ta-Nehisi Coates, We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy (https://www.amazon.com/We-Were-Eight-Years-Power/dp/0399590560)
Eric Foner, Reconstruction Updated Edition: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877 (https://www.amazon.com/Reconstruction-Updated-Unfinished-Revolution-1863-1877/dp/0062354515) (see also Eric Foner, Why Reconstruction Matters (https://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/29/opinion/sunday/why-reconstruction-matters.html) (a brief but informative opinion essay))
Oral Argument 76: Brutality (http://oralargument.org/76) (guest Al Brophy)
Sendhil Mullainathan and Eldar Shafir, Scarcity: Why Having Too Little Means So Much (https://scholar.harvard.edu/sendhil/scarcity)
Mehrsa Baradaran, How the Other Half Banks: Exclusion, Exploitation, and the Threat to Democracy (https://www.amazon.com/How-Other-Half-Banks-Exploitation/dp/B01MQZYGE8/)
Alfred Brophy, Reparations: Pro and Con (https://www.amazon.com/Reparations-Pro-Alfred-L-Brophy/dp/0195304071/)
William Darity, Jr. and Dania Frank, The Economics of Reparations (http://www.jstor.org/stable/3132248)
Jamelle Bouie and Rebecca Onion, Reconstruction (http://www.slate.com/articles/slate_plus/reconstruction.html) (a podcast from Slate)
Special Guest: Mehrsa Baradaran.