What We Need to Tackle the Wealth Gap with Anne Price

Let’s talk about centering the needs of Black women. In this episode, Anne Price, the first woman president of the Insight Center for Community Economic Development, talks about narrowing gendered racial wealth inequities. Spoiler alert: One way forward is to center Blackness. Anne breaks down various myths about the wealth gap and encourages us to reevaluate our thinking. We discuss Anne’s recent report, Don’t Fixate On the Racial Wealth Gap: Focus on Undoing Its Root Causes. 

Find links and show notes at https://breakconcrete.com/bc009

Topics Covered: 

• Defining wealth, the racial wealth gap, and the women’s wealth gap
• How race and gender intersect to create gendered racial wealth inequities
• Wealth and Black female entrepreneurship
• Deconstructing narratives of wealth and personal responsibility 
• Addressing the root causes of racial wealth inequities 
• Historical and structural barriers to wealth for the Black community
• Proposals for narrowing gendered racial wealth inequalities
• Centering blackness to achieve economic liberation

Follow us on

Instagram https://www.instagram.com/breakconcrete/

Twitter https://twitter.com/BreakConcrete/

Facebook https://www.facebook.com/breakconcrete/

E-mail feedback to breakconcrete@gmail.com.