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**This unprecedented, meticulous accounting of how mass incarceration has devastated Black communities is a powerful call to action: reparations are possible, vital, and long overdue.** __Stolen Wealth, Hidden Power__ is a staggering account of the destruction wrought by mass incarceration. Finding that the economic value of the damages to Black individuals, families, and communities totals $7.15 trillion—roughly 86 percent of the current Black–White wealth gap—this compelling and exhaustive analysis puts unprecedented empirical heft behind an urgent call for reparations. Much of the damage of mass incarceration, Tasseli McKay finds, has been silently absorbed by families and communities of the incarcerated—where it is often compensated for by women’s invisible labor. Four decades of state-sponsored violence have destroyed the health, economic potential, and political power of Black Americans across generations. Grounded in principles of transitional justice that have guided other nations in moving past eras of state violence, __Stolen Wealth, Hidden Power__ presents a comprehensive framework for how to begin intensive individual and institutional reparations. The extent of mass in

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Author

Tasseli McKay

Publisher

University of California Press

Published

2022

Language

EN

ISBN

9780520389441

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Social Science, Sociology, Social_sciences