This unprecedented, meticulous accounting of how mass incarceration has devastated Black communities is a powerful call to action: reparations are possible, vital, and long overdue. Stolen Wealth, Hidden Power is a staggering account of the destruction wrought by mass incarceration. Finding that the economic value of the damages to Black individuals, families, and communities totals $7.15 trillion-roughly 86 percent of the current Black-White wealth gap-this compelling and exhaustive analysis puts unprecedented empirical heft behind an urgent call for reparations. Much of the damage of mass incarceration, Tasseli McKay finds, has been silently absorbed by families and communities of the incarcerated-where it is often compensated for by women's invisible labor. Four decades of state-sponsored violence have destroyed the health, economic potential, and political power of Black Americans across generations. Grounded in principles of transitional justice that have guided other nations in moving past eras of state violence, Stolen Wealth, Hidden Power presents a comprehensive framework for how to begin intensive individual and institutional reparations. The extent of mass incarceration's racialized harms, estimated here with new rigor and scope, points to the urgency of this work and the possibilities that lie beyond it.

Book Information
ISBN 9780520389441
Author Tasseli McKay
Format Hardback
Page Count 316
Imprint University of California Press
Publisher University of California Press
Weight(grams) 152g