If this site were not solely fixated on Black books I would promote Poverty, by America by Matthew Desmond (Amazon is discounting the book by 37%)
โThe United States, the richest country on earth, has more poverty than any other advanced democracy. Why? Why does this land of plenty allow one in every eight of its children to go without basic necessities, permit scores of its citizens to live and die on the streets, and authorize its corporations to pay poverty wages?โ
Desmond also wrote another critically acclaimed book, Evicted (which Amazon is selling for 42% off--less than my wholesale discount!).
This is not a "Black" problem as many would portray, but an American problem. Black folk just catch pneumonia when white America catches a cold... But increasingly we are all are getting Covid.
White man live in a country that has provided them with benefits due to their race and gender, but they are living in poverty in alarming numbers. Black folks of any status call this a waste of white skin.
It is no wonder that white men are angry and killing themselves and overdosing in record numbers.
They, like everyone else, is poorly educated and targets of propaganda. They are led to believe they are lacking in some inherent way or worse it is some other group like the liberals, the Blacks, Mexicans, the non-Christinans or some other group that is also being victimized by the same forces