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How Can We Win: Race, History and Changing the Money Game That's Rigged
Kimberly Jones
4.36 AVERAGE
65 reviews for:
How Can We Win: Race, History and Changing the Money Game That's Rigged
Kimberly Jones
4.36 AVERAGE
*I received a copy of this book from a Goodreads Giveaway*
Five stars, easy. How could it not be? I teared up, I got mad, I learned a thing or two. All while enjoying the effortless and conversational tone. This book doesn't speak down to you or shy away from the true facts of this country's history and present.
If there's one thing that flows through Kimberly Jones writing like a golden thread, it's optimism and a pure love for the Black community past and present.
For many of us outside the Black community, myself included, 2020 was the year we started waking up and getting really, truly mad. Reading this book and learning more about no just the present state of the Black experience, but how we all got here, was an honor.
I wasn't completely in the dark, especially when it came to the travesty of a criminal justice system we have here, but there were other parts of our history I honestly didn't know about, like the Freedman's Bank. We should all be reading this book and others like it.
Yes, this book is an important read for all people of color, and is speaking directly to them. That doesn't mean white people shouldn't read it, quite the contrary. Something shouldn't have to be speaking to us specifically for us to shut up and listen.
Five stars, easy. How could it not be? I teared up, I got mad, I learned a thing or two. All while enjoying the effortless and conversational tone. This book doesn't speak down to you or shy away from the true facts of this country's history and present.
If there's one thing that flows through Kimberly Jones writing like a golden thread, it's optimism and a pure love for the Black community past and present.
For many of us outside the Black community, myself included, 2020 was the year we started waking up and getting really, truly mad. Reading this book and learning more about no just the present state of the Black experience, but how we all got here, was an honor.
I wasn't completely in the dark, especially when it came to the travesty of a criminal justice system we have here, but there were other parts of our history I honestly didn't know about, like the Freedman's Bank. We should all be reading this book and others like it.
Yes, this book is an important read for all people of color, and is speaking directly to them. That doesn't mean white people shouldn't read it, quite the contrary. Something shouldn't have to be speaking to us specifically for us to shut up and listen.
This is a great read. It really helped to put some things into perspective, and not only discusses problems, but also very viable solutions.
I received a copy of this book for free through Goodreads Giveaways.
I received a copy of this book for free through Goodreads Giveaways.
really phenomenal book. i think it was geared towards POC but i found value in it as a white woman.
Two ideas discussed in close proximity by Jones were the proposition of establishing a truth and reconciliation commission (TRC) - a process similar to that which South Africa underwent following the end of apartheid - and what she articulates as Reconstruction 2.0.
"The truth and reconciliation process would locate white privilege in its very distinct economic evolution that begins in slavery" and would invite conversations and introduce language in ways it has not done so in America as yet. While TRC's and other restorative justice models have been criticised, some of which Jones references in this text, as to not effecting enough change in those who had perpetrated harm, the proposition Jones raises is a really powerful one. It also leads into her discussion on Reconstruction 2.0 and the "imperative that we move in two directions at the same time. It won't be enough to create new systems intended for greater equity. We also have to think deeply about dismantling old, entrenched systems that have marginalised us, impoverished us and kept us out of equal participation in the American economy."
Jones also brings an important economic lens to these discussions, highlighting the roles of investing in community and self, and changing the nature of the game to correct injustices of the past that continue to cause layers of harm (she uses the analogy of a Monopoly board, and change requiring a throwing out of the board for a new one), as well as systemic reforms around ending incarceration, and reforming representation in education and medicine to end the specific racism manifesting there. This is an energising text, one full of correcting the historical record and providing a toolkit for action - and I highly recommend the audiobook particularly as it is narrated by Jones.
Many thanks to Text Publishing for sending a review copy.
"The truth and reconciliation process would locate white privilege in its very distinct economic evolution that begins in slavery" and would invite conversations and introduce language in ways it has not done so in America as yet. While TRC's and other restorative justice models have been criticised, some of which Jones references in this text, as to not effecting enough change in those who had perpetrated harm, the proposition Jones raises is a really powerful one. It also leads into her discussion on Reconstruction 2.0 and the "imperative that we move in two directions at the same time. It won't be enough to create new systems intended for greater equity. We also have to think deeply about dismantling old, entrenched systems that have marginalised us, impoverished us and kept us out of equal participation in the American economy."
Jones also brings an important economic lens to these discussions, highlighting the roles of investing in community and self, and changing the nature of the game to correct injustices of the past that continue to cause layers of harm (she uses the analogy of a Monopoly board, and change requiring a throwing out of the board for a new one), as well as systemic reforms around ending incarceration, and reforming representation in education and medicine to end the specific racism manifesting there. This is an energising text, one full of correcting the historical record and providing a toolkit for action - and I highly recommend the audiobook particularly as it is narrated by Jones.
Many thanks to Text Publishing for sending a review copy.
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