Contributors: Mehrsa Baradaran, Michael O'Malley, Michael Ralph, Stephanie Jones-Rogers, David Freund, Destin Jenkins, Devin Fergus, Peter Hudson, Camille Walsh, Tanay Tatum-Edwards, Shennette Garrett-Scott, K-Sue Park, and Sarah Quinn.

In several historic moments of banking or monetary reform, issues of race were inextricably tied to issues of money.