Our Black Year: One Family's Quest to Buy Black in America's Racially Divided Economy Cover:Paperback ready to die in her

ready to die in her place

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In the hopes of earning enough money to get their own place

Sidney Keys III

Our Black Year: One Family's Quest to Buy Black in America's Racially Divided Economy Cover:Paperback ready to die in herMaggie and John Anderson were successful African American professionals raising two daughters in a tony suburb of Chicago. But they felt uneasy over their good fortune. Most African Americans live in economically starved neighborhoods. Black wealth is about one tenth of white wealth, and black businesses lag behind businesses of all other racial groups in every measure of success. One problem is that black consumers unlike consumers of other