About this Event
MahoganyBooks is excited to host local author Andre M. Perry for a special meet and greet in celebration of his book,
If you're not already hip, this book takes a close look at the racial weatlth gap for Black Americans and offers tangible solutions on ways to tighten and eventually close that gap. Your're not going to want to miss this! Join us a for a wonderful afternoon book celebration!
ABOUT THE BOOK:
From the creator of "a unified field theory of racism" (NPR's Planet Money), a dollars-and-cents reckoning of the state of Black America and a new framework to close the power gap
Historically, Black Americans' quest for power has been understood as an attempt to gain equal protections under the law. But power in America requires more than basic democratic freedoms. It is inextricably linked with economic influence and ownership--of one's self, home, business, and creations.
Andre M. Perry draws on extensive research and analysis to quantify how much power Black Americans actually have. Ranging from property, business, and wealth to education, health, and social mobility, Black Power Scorecard moves across the country, evaluating people's ability to set the rules of the game and calculating how that translates into the ultimate means of power--life itself, and the longevity of Black communities. Along the way, Perry identifies woefully overlooked areas of investment that could close the racial gap and benefit everyone.
An expansive take on power supported by documentation and data, Black Power Scorecard is a fresh contribution to the country's reckoning with structural inequality, one that offers a new approach to redressing it.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Andre M. Perry is a Senior Fellow and Director of the Center for Community Uplift at the Brookings Institution. He is also a professor of practice of economics at Washington University of St. Louis. A nationally known and respected commentator on race, structural inequality, and education, Perry is the author of "Black Power Scorecard: Measuring the Racial Gap and What We Can Do to Close It," (Henry Holt April 2025). In 2020 Brooking Press published “Know Your Price: Valuing Black Lives and Property in America’s Black Cities.”
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Let's have an amazing afternoon,
Derrick, Ramunda & The MahoganyBooks Team
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
MahoganyBooks - National Harbor, 121 American Way, Oxon Hill, United States
USD 24.25
