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LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD 'With intelligence and care
(as well as with a trove of sometimes heartbreaking and sometimes
heart-opening true stories) Heather McGhee shows us what racism has
cost all of us' - Elizabeth Gilbert Picked for the Financial Times
Summer Books by Gillian Tett What would make a society drain its
public swimming baths and fill them with concrete rather than
opening them to everyone? Economics researcher Heather McGhee sets
out across America to learn why white voters so often act against
their own interests. Why do they block changes that would help
them, and even destroy their own advantages, whenever people of
colour also stand to benefit? Their tragedy is that they believe
they can't win unless somebody else loses. But this is a lie.
McGhee marshals overwhelming economic evidence, and a profound well
of empathy, to reveal the surprising truth: even racists lose out
under white supremacy. And US racism is everybody's problem. As
McGhee shows, it was bigoted lending policies that laid the ground
for the 2008 financial crisis. There can be little prospect of
tackling global climate change until America's zero-sum delusions
are defeated. The Sum of Us offers a priceless insight into the
workings of prejudice, and a timely invitation to solidarity among
all humans, 'to piece together a new story of who we could be to
one another'.
LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD 'With intelligence and care
(as well as with a trove of sometimes heartbreaking and sometimes
heart-opening true stories) Heather McGhee shows us what racism has
cost all of us' - Elizabeth Gilbert Picked for the Financial Times
Summer Books by Gillian Tett What would make a society drain its
public swimming baths and fill them with concrete rather than
opening them to everyone? Economics researcher Heather McGhee sets
out across America to learn why white voters so often act against
their own interests. Why do they block changes that would help
them, and even destroy their own advantages, whenever people of
colour also stand to benefit? Their tragedy is that they believe
they can't win unless somebody else loses. But this is a lie.
McGhee marshals overwhelming economic evidence, and a profound well
of empathy, to reveal the surprising truth: even racists lose out
under white supremacy. And US racism is everybody's problem. As
McGhee shows, it was bigoted lending policies that laid the ground
for the 2008 financial crisis. There can be little prospect of
tackling global climate change until America's zero-sum delusions
are defeated. The Sum of Us offers a priceless insight into the
workings of prejudice, and a timely invitation to solidarity among
all humans, 'to piece together a new story of who we could be to
one another'.
A timely and paradigm-shifting argument that all members of a
democracy must participate in elections, by a leading political
expert and Washington Post journalist Americans are required to pay
taxes, serve on juries, get their kids vaccinated, get driver's
licenses, and sometimes go to war for their country. So why not
ask-or require-every American to vote? In 100% Democracy, E.J.
Dionne and Miles Rapoport argue that universal participation in our
elections should be a cornerstone of our system. It would be the
surest way to protect against voter suppression and the active
disenfranchisement of a large share of our citizens. And it would
create a system true to the Declaration of Independence's
aspirations by calling for a government based on the consent of all
of the governed. It's not as radical or utopian as it sounds: in
Australia, where everyone is required to vote (Australians can vote
"none of the above," but they have to show up), 91.9 percent of
Australians voted in the last major election in 2019, versus 60.1
percent in America's 2016 presidential race. Australia hosts
voting-day parties and actively celebrates this key civic duty. It
is time for the United States to take a major leap forward and
recognize voting as both a fundamental civil right and a solemn
civic duty required of every eligible U.S. citizen.
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