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The color of wealth : the story behind the U.S. racial wealth divide / Meizhu Lui ... [and others].
LIBRA HC110.W4 C654 2006
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Wealth--United States.
- Wealth.
- Racism--Economic aspects.
- Racism.
- Race relations.
- United States.
- Poverty--United States.
- Poverty.
- Income distribution--United States.
- Income distribution.
- Equality--United States.
- Equality.
- United States--Race relations--Economic aspects.
- Racism--Economic aspects--United States.
- United States--Social policy.
- Social policy.
- Physical Description:
- vii, 326 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Other Title:
- Racial wealth divide
- Place of Publication:
- New York : New Press : Distributed by W. W. Norton, 2006.
- Contents:
- Overview: the roots of the racial wealth divide
- Land rich, dirt poor: challenges to asset building in Native America
- Forged in blood: Black wealth injustice in the United States
- Neighbors and fences: Latinos in the United States
- The perils of being yellow: Asian Americans as perpetual foreigners
- Climbing the up escalator: white advantages in wealth accumulation
- Rainbow economics: closing the racial wealth divide.
- Notes:
- "United for a Fair Economy."
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-316) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1595580042
- OCLC:
- 62290673
- Publisher Number:
- 9781595580047
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