Being Black, Living in the Red : Race, Wealth, and Social Policy in America, 10th Anniversary Edition, With a New Afterword / Dalton Conley; ed. by Dalton Conley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Conley, Dalton, Author.

Contributor:

Conley, Dalton, Editor.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (240 p.) : 29 line illustrations, 22 tables

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2009]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

CHAPTER ONE Wealth Matters

CHAPTER TWO Forty Acres and a Mule: Historical and Contemporary Obstacles to Black Property Accumulation

CHAPTER THREE From Financial to Social to Human Capital: Assets and Education

CHAPTER FOUR Up the Down Escalator: Wealth, Work, and Wages

CHAPTER FIVE It Takes a Village? Premarital Childbearing and Welfare Dependency

CHAPTER SIX Getting into the Black: Conclusions and Policy Implications

AFTERWORD Living in the Red, a Decade Later

Appendix

Notes

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 01. Nov 2023)

ISBN:

9780520945340

OCLC:

1408682612