Funding White Supremacy : Federal Wealth Policies and the Modern Racial Wealth Gap

The racial wealth gap in America, even in recent decades, is expanding and perpetuating the system of white supremacy. This book details a largely unacknowledged cause: how current federal policies continue this legacy. Through the lens of stratification economics, it explains the origins, evolution, and impact of these politics.

In Funding White Supremacy, Robert B. Williams shows how current federal policies have perpetuated and expanded the racial wealth gap in the United States. Through the lens of stratification economics, Williams explores how twelve tax expenditures buried in the federal tax code shower over $1 trillion annually to mostly wealthy, white households, while federal estate and gift taxes have been systematically dismantled. The book reveals how these policies originated in a period of overt racial oppression and have evolved in the modern, post-Civil Rights era, not only contributing to the expanding racial wealth gaps over the last fifty years but how they have also fostered the growth of white wealth at the expense of Black wealth. This book is a must-read for anyone seeking to understand how federal policies contribute to the vast and expanding racial wealth gap at the core of the American system of white supremacy.