The Sum of Us
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Introduction Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Chapter 6 Chapter 7 Chapter 8 Chapter 9 Chapter 10
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All Themes Zero-Sum Thinking vs. Solidarity The Toll of Racism American Values and Identity Research, Persuasion, and Policy Change
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All Characters Heather McGhee Barack Obama Donald Trump Isaiah and Janice Tomlin James M. Buchanan George Floyd Ken Cecile Thornton
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All Terms Affordable Care Act (“Obamacare”) Demos Fight for $15 G.I. Bill Maine People’s Alliance Medicaid Expansion New Deal Racial Resentment Racial Wealth Gap Redlining Shelby County v. Holder Social Dominance Orientation Solidarity Dividend Subprime Loans/Mortgages Three-Fifths Compromise Truth, Racial Healing and Transformation (TRHT) United Auto Workers (UAW) Voting Rights Act Zero-sum Paradigm
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All Symbols Public Swimming Pools
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The Sum of Us

by

Heather McGhee

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Public Swimming Pools

Drained swimming pools represent the way that zero-sum racial politics hurts everyone, including white people, by destroying public goods and services. As Heather McGhee explains in the second chapter of The Sum of Us…

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