Being Black, Living in the Red

Race, Wealth, and Social Policy in America, 10th Anniversary Edition, With a New Afterword

Häftad, Engelska, 2009

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Beskrivning

"Being Black, Living in the Red" demonstrates that many differences between blacks and whites stem not from race but from economic inequalities that have accumulated over the course of American history. Property ownership - as measured by net worth - reflects this legacy of economic oppression. The racial discrepancy in wealth holdings leads to advantages for whites in the form of better schools, more desirable residences, higher wages, and more opportunities to save, invest, and thereby further their economic advantages. A new afterword by the author summarizes Conley's recent research on racial differences in wealth mobility and security and discusses potential policy solutions to the racial asset gap and America's low savings rate more generally.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2009-12-10
Mått:152 x 229 x 18 mm
Vikt:363 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:240
Förlag:University of California Press
ISBN:9780520261303

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Dalton Conley is University Professor, Chair of Sociology, and Acting Dean of Social Sciences at New York University. He is also Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and Adjunct Professor of Community Medicine at Mt.Sinai School of Medicine.

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"Being Black, Living in the Red is an important contribution to our overall understanding of social stratification in modern society. It provides an excellent introduction to the subject for students and is an important piece of scholarship for all social scientists interested in inequality."

Innehållsförteckning

Acknowledgments 1. Wealth Matters 2. Forty Acres and a Mule: Historical and Contemporary Obstacles to Black Property Accumulation 3. From Financial to Social to Human Capital:Assets and Education 4. Up the Down Escalator: Wealth, Work, and Wages 5. It Takes a Village? Premarital Childbearing and Welfare Dependency 6. Getting into the Black: Conclusions and Policy Implications Afterword: Living in the Red, a Decade Later Appendix Notes Index