From Here to Equality, Second Edition

William A. Darity Jr. is the Samuel DuBois Cook Professor of Public Policy, African and African American Studies, and Economics at Duke University. A. Kirsten Mullen is a writer, folklorist, museum consultant, and lecturer whose work focuses on race, art, history, and politics.

Reparations are having a moment. . . . In From Here to Equality, William A. Darity and A. Kirsten Mullen draw on both journalistic and scholarly sources to make a strong case for cash payments to Black descendants of slaves. . . . A rich historical account of how the economic inequalities between Black and white Americans were created and perpetuated through centuries of slavery and the legally enforced systems of discrimination and political disfranchisement that followed. . . . Darity and Mullen provide a detailed analysis of the deep disparities in wealth, income, education, and other measures of well-being that have persisted since emancipation."--The Nation [Darity and Mullen] offer a multi-faceted reparations program which is intended to remedy multiple aspects of the situation. . . . [W]hile the research and text are highly academic, the text is well-adapted to reading and comprehension by the general public."-Anglican and Episcopal History A searing testament to the conversations of US reparations for African American descendants of the enslaved. . . . From Here to Equality ultimately inspires a collective journey toward a more equitable future."--Sociology of Race and Ethnicity Darity and Mullen challenge the United States to bear the moral weight of the legacies of slavery and deeply entrenched racism: to reject trifling, half-hearted measures and to approach--and perhaps even achieve--wholeness through reparations."--New York Review of Books Essential to any debate over the need for and way to achieve meaningful large-scale reparations."--Kirkus Reviews The national dialogue on reparations has gained strength from the work of Darity and Mullen. Certainly, From Here to Equality is the most comprehensive book today on the political economy of reparations."--American Journal of Economics and Sociology