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Nonfiction
My Rating: 🍪🍪🍪🍪

In The Sum of Us, McGhee paints a portrait of the zero-sum mentality as it pertains to racism. Through interviews across America, she shows how harmful the mindset that one race, or person, benefiting innately harms someone else is to everyone as a whole. McGhee utilizes real-life examples of people’s perceptions and historical incidents to show how the zero-sum game has played out across the country and what benefits could have been gained from a more communal mindset.

McGhee is clearly an expert in her field and her insights on the detriments of racism to the economy were stark. She paints a hopeful picture of how working as a community to address harmful laws and policies would get us much further in terms of positive economic changes for the masses. I wished there were a few more concrete examples of how her recommendations could be implemented, but I guess the focus of the book was more so on recognizing the problem and its impacts.

Overall, this was an eye-opening book that covers the historical and modern-day implications of the zero-sum game, as it pertains to racism, on the American economy.

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