The award-winning Black Wealth/White Wealth offers a powerful portrait of racial inequality
based on an analysis of private wealth. Melvin Oliver and Thomas Shapiro's groundbreaking …

" Being Black, Living in the Red is an important book. In Conley's persuasive analysis the
locus of current racial inequality resides in class and property relations, not in the labor …

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY As the United States rapidly becomes both a more diverse and
unequal nation, policymakers face the urgent challenge of confronting growing wealth gaps …

Growing concerns about wealth inequality and the expanding racial wealth gap have in
recent years become central to the debate over whether our nation is on a sustainable …

Using data from the 2013 Survey of Consumer Finances, this research examines competing
and complementary cultural and structural explanations of the sources of racial differences …

When it comes to economic gaps between whites and communities of color in the United
States, income inequality tells part of the story. But let's not forget about wealth. Wealth isn't …

Introduction and summary The gap in wealth holdings between African-Americans and white
Americans is enormous much larger than the gap in earnings. For example, Menchik and …

In the United States, the average Black and Hispanic or Latino households earn about half
as much as the average White household and own only about 15 to 20 percent as much net …

Despite an enormous and persistent black-white wealth gap, the ascendant American
narrative is one that proclaims that our society has transcended the racial divide. The …

How wealth inequality has changed in the US since the Great Recession, by race, ethnicity and
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