![]() ![]() ![]() From health care policy and environmental justice to the ongoing legacy of segregation, McGhee places urgent topics in a new framework, supported by research and illustrated by stories of Black and white Americans from across the country.ĪLSO IN BOOKPAGE: Read our review of the print version of The Sum of Us. Listeners can hear the despair in her voice as she describes the atrocities of white plantation owners and the devastation caused by predatory housing lenders, as well as her hopefulness when she introduces listeners to coalitions succeeding in confronting voter suppression. The Sum of Us, by our guest today, Heather McGhee, seeks to do a full accounting of the. Public services have been decimated, millions of. McGhee, who narrates the audiobook, brings the same thoughtfulness to her reading as to her writing. She has written for Harvard Business Review, Time, USA Today. The Sum of Us (2021) is a searing analysis of how white supremacy has devastated the American middle class. But to write The Sum of Us (11 hours), Heather McGhee traveled across the country-from coastal Washington and rural Kentucky to an evangelical church in Chicago and a Nissan plant in Mississippi-to understand the roots of white America’s zero-sum attitude toward racial equity and how this mistaken belief system damages everyone. ![]() ![]() A wide-ranging examination of racial inequity in America, written by the former head of a progressive think tank, might not be the most obvious audiobook choice for your next road trip. ![]()
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