The County of San Diego Filipino-American Employees’ Association is hosting a book discussion on “The Sum of Us. The event will be held at the North University Community Library from 2 to 3 p.m., Saturday, Feb. 3.
“The Sum of Us” is a One Book, One San Diego selection for the current year. One Book, One San Diego is a literary program aimed at bringing our community together through the shared experience of reading and discussing the same book.
This event is co-hosted by CSDFEA and the City of San Diego Filipino-American Employees’ Association.
Book description:
Heather McGhee’s specialty is the American economy—and the mystery of why it so often fails the American public. From the financial crisis of 2008 to rising student debt to collapsing public infrastructure, she found a root problem: racism in our politics and policymaking. But not just in the most obvious indignities for people of color. Racism has costs for white people, too. It is the common denominator of our most vexing public problems, the core dysfunction of our democracy and constitutive of the spiritual and moral crises that grip us all. But how did this happen? And is there a way out?
McGhee embarks on a deeply personal journey across the country from Maine to Mississippi to California, tallying what we lose when we buy into the zero-sum paradigm—the idea that progress for some of us must come at the expense of others. Along the way, she meets white people who confide in her about losing their homes, their dreams, and their shot at better jobs to the toxic mix of American racism and greed. This is the story of how public goods in this country—from parks and pools to functioning schools—have become private luxuries; of how unions collapsed, wages stagnated, and inequality increased; and of how this country, unique among the world’s advanced economies, has thwarted universal healthcare.
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