The Color of Money By:"Mehrsa Baradaran" Published on 2017-09-14 by Harvard University Press In 1863 black communities owned less than 1 percent of total U.S. wealth. Today that number has barely budged. Mehrsa Baradaran pursues this wealth gap by focusing on black banks. She challenges the myth that black banking is the solution to the racial wealth gap and argues that black communities can never accumulate wealth in a segregated economy. This Book was ranked 4 by Google Books for keyword public.