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2021-2022 Common Read - Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man: 7. The House Always Wins

The House Always Wins: Systemic Racism

Sources Mentioned in this Chapter

"In a Recovering Market, Homeownership Rates Are Down Sharply for Blacks, Young Adults" from Pew Research
"Who Cares About Winston Marshall? Voluntary Downward Mobility" by Richard V. Reeves and Joanna Venator
"Double Jeopardy: How Third Grade Reading Skills and Poverty Influence High School Graduation" by the Annie E. Casey Foundation
"The Consequences of Dropping Out of High School: Joblessness and Jailing for High School Dropouts and the High Cost for Taxpayers" by Andrew Sum, Ishwar Khatiwada, and Joseph McLaughlin
"Choosing a School for My Daughter in a Segregated City" by Nikole Hannah-Jones
"Dividing Lines" by Nikole Hannah-Jones
"Common Sense" by Nikole Hannah-Jones
"How School Segregation Divides Ferguson -- and the United States: [News Analysis]" by Nikole Hannah-Jones,
"It Was Never About Busing: News Analysis" by Nikole Hannah-Jones
"Worlds Apart" by Nikole Hannah-Jones
"'Many Echoes of My Family's Journey': Readers React to School Segregation" by Nikole Hannah-Jones

Additional Resources

Implicit Racial Bias Across the Law by Justin D. Levinson (Editor); Robert J. Smith (Editor)
Call Number: eBook
ISBN: 9781107010956
Publication Date: 2012
Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See, Think, and Do by Jennifer L. Eberhardt
Call Number: eBook
Publication Date: 2019
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Chapter Sources

The Epic of America by James Truslo Adams
Call Number: E178 .A259 1932
Publication Date: 1932

The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America by Richard Rothstein
Call Number: E185.61 .R8185 2017
ISBN: 9781631492853
Publication Date: 2017

"Say African American or Black, But First Acknowledge the Persistence of Structural Racism" by Margaret Simms