9780815737278-0815737270-Know Your Price: Valuing Black Lives and Property in America’s Black Cities

Know Your Price: Valuing Black Lives and Property in America’s Black Cities

ISBN-13: 9780815737278
ISBN-10: 0815737270
Author: Andre Perry
Publication date: 2020
Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
Format: Hardcover 268 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780815737278
ISBN-10: 0815737270
Author: Andre Perry
Publication date: 2020
Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
Format: Hardcover 268 pages

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Know Your Price: Valuing Black Lives and Property in America’s Black Cities (ISBN-13: 9780815737278 and ISBN-10: 0815737270), written by authors Andre Perry, was published by Brookings Institution Press in 2020. With an overall rating of 4.2 stars, it's a notable title among other Black & African American (Cultural & Regional) books. You can easily purchase or rent Know Your Price: Valuing Black Lives and Property in America’s Black Cities (Hardcover) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Black & African American books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.35.

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The deliberate devaluation of Blacks and their communities has had very real, far-reaching, and negative economic and social effects. An enduring white supremacist myth claims brutal conditions in Black communities are mainly the result of Black people's collective choices and moral failings. "That's just how they are" or "there's really no excuse": we've all heard those not so subtle digs.

But there is nothing wrong with Black people that ending racism can't solve. We haven't known how much the country will gain by properly valuing homes and businesses, family structures, voters, and school districts in Black neighborhoods. And we need to know.

Noted educator, journalist, and scholar Andre Perry takes readers on a tour of six Black-majority cities whose assets and strengths are undervalued. Perry begins in his hometown of Wilkinsburg, a small city east of Pittsburgh that, unlike its much larger neighbor, is struggling and failing to attract new jobs and industry. Bringing his own personal story of growing up in Black-majority Wilkinsburg, Perry also spotlights five others where he has deep connections: Detroit, Birmingham, New Orleans, Atlanta, and Washington, D.C. He provides an intimate look at the assets that should be of greater value to residents--and that can be if they demand it.

Perry provides a new means of determining the value of Black communities. Rejecting policies shaped by flawed perspectives of the past and present, it gives fresh insights on the historical effects of racism and provides a new value paradigm to limit them in the future.

Know Your Price demonstrates the worth of Black people's intrinsic personal strengths, real property, and traditional institutions. These assets are a means of empowerment and, as Perry argues in this provocative and very personal book, are what we need to know and understand to build Black prosperity.

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