Tag Archives: Economic Non-Fiction

[REVIEW] It’s Not You, It’s Capitalism: Why It’s Time To Break Up And How To Move On, by Malaika Jabali

(Buy this book here.) Read time: About 3 minutes 25-year old me would think that 45-year old me is ballin. 45-year old me thinks that I work too hard not to be. Both of us are pissed off. Somehow, the steady rise of my income is far outmatched by the upward sprint of the costContinue reading “[REVIEW] It’s Not You, It’s Capitalism: Why It’s Time To Break Up And How To Move On, by Malaika Jabali”

[REVIEW] Our Black Year: One Family’s Quest To Buy Black In America’s Racially Divided Economy, by Maggie Anderson

(Buy it on Bookshop here. Or not.) To cut right to the chase, this book really pissed me off. On its face, it’s a real life account of an affluent, educated Black family in Chicago who decided to spend all of 2009 buying from only Black businesses in order to demonstrate the ethnic disparities inContinue reading “[REVIEW] Our Black Year: One Family’s Quest To Buy Black In America’s Racially Divided Economy, by Maggie Anderson”