By he history of the racial wealth gap in America told through the stories of seven Black families who struggled to build wealth over multiple generations. Their struggles reveal that the ever-evolving strategies to strip Black income and wealth have been critical to sustaining a structure of racialized disadvantage. These accounts also tell of the quiet heroism of those who worked to overcome obstacles and defy the plunder. Shows that we cannot reckon with today’s racial wealth inequality without understanding its unrelenting role in American history. Read more.