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Shortlisted for the SABEW Best in Business Book Awards
Winner of the 2022 AAMBC Literary Award for Non-Fiction/Self Help Book of the Year

A breakdown of the economic and social injustices facing Black people and other marginalized citizens inspired by political activist Kimberly Jones' viral video, “How Can We Win.”

“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 the murder of George Floyd, she gave a history lesson that in just over six minutes captured the economic struggles of Black people in America. Within days the video had been viewed by millions of people around the world, riveted by Jones’s damning—and stunningly succinct—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 Reconstruction 2.0, a multilayered plan to reclaim economic and social restitutions—those restitutions promised with emancipation but blocked, again and again, for more than 150 years. And, most of all, Jones delivers strategies for how we can effect change as citizens and allies while nurturing ourselves—the most valuable asset we have—in the fight against a system that is still rigged.

ISBN-13: 9781250805126

Media Type: Hardcover

Publisher: Holt Henry & Company Inc.

Publication Date: 01-18-2022

Pages: 192

Product Dimensions: 5.60(w) x 8.20(h) x 0.90(d)

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.

Table of Contents

How Can We Win? 1

Hood Girls Can Be Heroes Too 17

Four Hundred Rounds of Monopoly 31

Reconstruction 46

The Game Is Fixed 57

How We Can Win 79

Reconstruction 2.0 83

Nine Priorities for a Balanced Life 129

Hope Looks Like the Future 156

In Memoriam 171

Further Reading 175

Acknowledgments 179