Banking on a Revolution
Author | : Terri Friedline |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 313 |
Release | : 2020-12 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780190944131 |
ISBN-13 | : 0190944137 |
Rating | : 4/5 (31 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: "The Revolution Will Not Be Financed takes the perspective that the financial system needs a revolution-and not the impending revolution driven by technology. Studying various ways the financial system advantages whites by exploiting and marginalizing Black and Brown communities, Terri Friedline challenges the optimistic belief that fintech can expand access to banking and finance. Friedline applies the lens of financialized racial neoliberal capitalism to demonstrate the financial system's inherent racism, and explores examples from student loan debt, corporate landlords, community benefits agreements, and banking and payday lending. She makes the case that the financial system needs a people-led revolution that centers the needs, experiences, and perspectives of those that it has historically excluded, marginalized, and exploited"--