Funding White Supremacy

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.

• Pursues a deep empirical dive into an organic feature of racial inequality in the US
• Offers detailed explanations of how past and present government policies have created and perpetuated the racial wealth gap
• Integrates the author's Wealth Privilege model into the structure of stratification economics, revealing how a US specific process can be generalized to a global scale