Biden adds reparations advocate professor to economic task force

The campaign appointed Mehrsa Baradaran, a professor at the University of California’s Irvine School of Law, to the Department of the Treasury agency review board. Baradaran wrote a book titled The Color of Money, in which she argues that “housing segregation, racism, and Jim Crow credit policies created an inescapable, but hard to detect, economic trap for black communities and their banks," according to a description by Harvard University Press.

The same description further explains that “black banks” have “functioned as a potent political decoy to avoid more fundamental reforms and racial redress.”

Baradaran sees potential for this racial redress in the form of reparations.