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Mehrsa Baradaran is J. Alton Hosch Associate Professor of Law at the University of Georgia School of Law. Her books include How the Other Half Banks and The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap.
Nixon’s embrace of “black capitalism” was a canny move that ultimately decimated the black community and turned the wealth gap into a wealth chasm.
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