AmeticulousandexhaustiveaccountingofthetotaleconomicdevastationwreakedonBlackcommunitiesbymassincarcerationwithanactionguideforvitalreparations.StolenWealth,HiddenPowerisastaggeringaccountofthedestructionwroughtbymassincarceration.FindingthattheeconomicvalueofthedamagestoBlackindividuals,families,andcommunitiestotals$7.16trillion--roughly86percentofthecurrentBlack-Whitewealthgap--thiscompellingandexhaustiveanalysisputsunprecedentedempiricalheftbehindanurgentcallforreparations.Muchofthedamageofmassincarceration,TasseliMcKayfinds,hasbeensilentlyabsorbedbyfamiliesandcommunitiesoftheincarcerated--whereitisoftencompensatedforbywomen’sinvisiblelabor.Fourdecadesofstate-sponsoredviolencehavedestroyedthehealth,economicpotential,andpoliticalpowerofBlackAmericansacrossgenerations.Groundedinprinciplesoftransitionaljusticethathaveguidedothernationsinmovingpasterasofstateviolence,StolenWealth,HiddenPowerpresentsacomprehensiveframeworkforhowtobeginintensiveindividualandinstitutionalreparations.Theextentofmassincarceration’sracializedharms,estimatedherewithnewrigorandscope,pointstotheurgencyofthisworkandthepossibilitiesthatliebeyondit.
