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Calvin Schermerhorn, "The Plunder of Black America: How the Racial Wealth Gap Was Made" (Yale UP, 2025)

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Wealth as the Key Indicator and Family Case Studies

Schermerhorn argues wealth is the primary measure of racial inequality and introduces the seven-family approach tracing dispossession, disinheritance, and decapitalization across generations.

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