Chapter 14

Working Together

Chapter 12 begins with the observation, "The most important lesson that the social scientists have to teach us is that overcoming racism and realizing the civil rights dream is extremely difficult but not impossible." By describing things that we can do together, this chapter mirrors in chapter 11 which discussed what we can do

A legacy of slavery, Jim Crow, and the white paradigm is that white people and families have greater wealth than non-whites. The footnote in Chapter 5 on page 74 describes the extent of the gap in wealth between whites and non-whites. That note also presents the evidence that under the white paradigm the gap is increasing and will continue to