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.

"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."

• 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