How We Can Win

Race, History and Changing the Money Game That's Rigged

Kimberly Jones

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18 January 2022

Society & Social Sciences; Politics & government

‘So if I played four hundred rounds of Monopoly with you and I had to play and give you every dime that I made, and then for fifty years, every time that I played, if you didn’t like what I did, you got to burn it like they did in Tulsa and like they did in Rosewood, how can you win? How can you win?’

When Kimberly Jones declared these words amid the protests spurred by George Floyd’s murder, she captured the world’s attention. Millions of people watched the video of her speech, riveted by her damning analysis of the enduring disparities Black Americans face.

In How We Can Win, Jones delves into the impacts of systemic racism and reveals how her formative years in Chicago gave birth to a lifelong devotion to justice. Here, in a vital expansion of her declaration, she calls for a multilayered plan to reclaim economic and social restitutions—promised with emancipation but blocked, again and again, for more than one hundred and fifty years. And, crucially, Jones delivers strategies for how we can all effect change in the fight against a system that is still rigged.

By: Kimberly Jones
Imprint: Text Publishing Company
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm, Spine: 1mm
Weight: 1g
ISBN: 9781911231394
ISBN 10: 1911231391
Pages: 192
Publication Date: 18 January 2022
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Kimberly Jones is an activist, former bookseller and current host of the Well-Read Black Girl book club's Atlanta chapter. She has directed feature films and cutting-edge diverse web series and has an overall deal with Warner Bros. Pictures. Jones is also co-author of the bestselling YA novels I'm Not Dying with You Tonight and Why We Fly.

Reviews for How We Can Win: Race, History and Changing the Money Game That's Rigged

'Kimberly Jones hits as hard as Serena Williams and has the intellectual range of Angela Davis. How We Can Win is genius-written with the cadence of hip-hop and the intellectual energy of jazz. Jones understands the relationship between America's streets and its boardrooms, and she delivers her lessons with heart, nuance and a complexity that belie the simplicity of her prose. This book is both a praise song for Black life and a manual for humanity.' * Sisonke Msimang *