{"id":27,"date":"2017-02-07T16:26:08","date_gmt":"2017-02-07T16:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ssppit.wordpress.com\/2017\/02\/07\/2017-2-7-s2-episode-5-bootstraps-and-silver-spoons\/"},"modified":"2025-02-25T19:38:33","modified_gmt":"2025-02-25T19:38:33","slug":"s2e5-bootstraps-and-silver-spoons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/waysandmeansshow.org\/2017\/02\/07\/s2e5-bootstraps-and-silver-spoons\/","title":{"rendered":"S2 Episode 5: Bootstraps and Silver Spoons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Most of us prize stories of people who start with nothing in life, and then become rich. Americans even have a saying for it: pulling yourself up by your bootstraps.\u00a0 However, new economic research is revealing how wealth is actually built in the US and how difficult it is for some people to gain wealth, even when they do everything right.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Bootstraps and Silver Spoons by Sanford School @ Duke\" width=\"500\" height=\"400\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?visual=true&#038;url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F306557174&#038;show_artwork=true&#038;maxheight=750&#038;maxwidth=500\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This episode features <a href=\"https:\/\/sanford.duke.edu\/people\/faculty\/darity-jr-william\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">William &#8220;Sandy&#8221; Darity<\/a>, Professor of Public Policy, African American Studies and Economics at Duke University. Darity also directs the <a href=\"https:\/\/socialequity.duke.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Samuel DuBois Cook Center on Social Equity<\/a> at Duke.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: left\">Look at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bostonfed.org\/publications\/one-time-pubs\/color-of-wealth.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Color of Wealth in Boston report<\/a>, the <a href=\"https:\/\/socialequity.duke.edu\/news\/new-report-color-wealth-los-angeles\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Color of Wealth in Los Angeles report,<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.urban.org\/research\/publication\/color-wealth-nations-capital\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Color of Wealth in the Nation&#8217;s Capital report.<\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left\">Here&#8217;s the book we referenced, <a href=\"http:\/\/press.princeton.edu\/titles\/7838.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Unequal Chances: Family Background and Economic Success<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left\">Read the article<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/magazine\/archive\/2014\/06\/the-case-for-reparations\/361631\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> The Case for Reparations by Ta-Nehisi Coates.<\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left\">Read more <a href=\"http:\/\/lawmagazine.bc.edu\/2015\/06\/god-bless-the-child-thats-got-her-own\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">about Taisha Sturdivant<\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left\">Here&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/230281782\/c3bceb7ffd\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Taisha and Mack&#8217;s wedding video<\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.sanford.duke.edu\/waysandmeans\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2017\/02\/S2E5-Ways-and-Means-Bootstraps-and-Silver-Spoons-Transcript.pdf\">Read the episode transcript.<\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left\"><em>Music by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.schulmancreative.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">David Schulman<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.soundofpicture.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sound of Picture<\/a>. <\/em><em>Also, Memories of the War 1861-1863 Conway\u2019s Band from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.loc.gov\/jukebox\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Library of Congress National Jukebox<\/a>; Begin the Beguine from<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/pCXVxE_YeP4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> the 1938 short Artie Shaw and his Orchestra;<\/a> Pick Yourself Up <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/AGUsRGuZb6k\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">performed by Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, 1936<\/a>.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n[<a href=\"http:\/\/youtube=:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Ye83SwDrKNw&amp;w=854&amp;h=480\">http:\/\/youtube=:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Ye83SwDrKNw&amp;w=854&amp;h=480<\/a>]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New research on the difficulties some people face to gain wealth, even when they do everything right.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/waysandmeansshow.org\/2017\/02\/07\/s2e5-bootstraps-and-silver-spoons\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">S2 Episode 5: Bootstraps and Silver Spoons<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":168,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[11,26,33,35,39],"homepage-visibility":[60],"class_list":["post-27","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-episodes","tag-economy","tag-inequality","tag-poverty","tag-race","tag-social-policy","homepage-visibility-visible","ratio-natural","entry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.8.1 - 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