THE ENGINEERED COLLAPSE OF THE BLACK FAMILY
How a Nation Built a System to Break the Black FamilyBy Cedrick Carter
Length1h 12m
About this audiobook
Do you ever wonder why the Black family is dysfunctional? What if it was never broken — just deliberately taken apart?
This book is not a complaint. It is a case file. Through documented laws, declassified government records, and hard data, Cedrick Carter traces every mechanism used to systematically dismantle Black households in America — from welfare policies designed to push fathers out, to drug laws written with a racial gap built right in, to the media playbook that programmed a generation for failure.
Layer by layer, the evidence stacks up into one undeniable picture: what looks like a cultural problem is actually an engineered one.
The receipts are all here.
Audiobook details
GenreHistory, True Crime
Length1 hr 12 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateApr 17, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1THE ENGINEERED COLLAPSE
2Introduction: A Crime Without a Confession
3Sitting in government records
4Chapter 1
5acts like a team.
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6Chapter 2
7Black communities today. Different decade. Different mechanism. Same result.
8Chapter 3
9They Built a Pipeline From the Neighborhood to the Prison
10times more.
11Chapter 4
12possible entry point.
13millions, especially through the GI Bill.
14Black community over two decades.
15Chapter 5
16The attack on the mind.
17criminalize.
18BURDEN STACKING: Father gone. Wealth gone. Neighborhood destroyed. Now the
19Chapter 6
20The Schools That Were Starved — And the Pipeline They Built Instead
21$1,800 less per student per year than schools in wealthy areas.
22Black people.
23stability across generations.
24Meanwhile, the curriculum in most American schools barely mentions Black history, Black
25Chapter 7
26measurably different stress responses and anxiety levels even if they personally never
27BURDEN STACKING: Father gone. Wealth stolen. Community destroyed. Mind
28Chapter 8
29benefits everyone outside the community and no one inside it.
30dispersal, through the destruction of economic ecosystems like Black Wall Street, through
31Chapter 9
32The New Version — Same System, Different Technology
33Different agency, different decade, same result.
34BURDEN STACKING: Father gone. Wealth stolen. Community destroyed. Mind
35Chapter 10
36The reason is simple
37Conclusion
38for the pipeline, not for success.
39This is not a book about despair
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