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| Acknowledgments | ||
| 1 | Wealth Matters | 1 |
| 2 | Forty Acres and a Mule: Historical and Contemporary Obstacles to Black Property Accumulation | 25 |
| 3 | From Financial to Social to Human Capital: Assets and Education | 55 |
| 4 | Up the Down Escalator: Wealth, Work, and Wages | 83 |
| 5 | It Takes a Village? Premarital Childbearing and Welfare Dependency | 109 |
| 6 | Getting into the Black: Conclusions and Policy Implications | 133 |
| Appendix | 153 | |
| Notes | 181 | |
| Index | 203 |
| Price | Condition | Delivery | Seller | Action |
| $99.99 | Digital |
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Laurie Gross
reviewed Being Black, Living in the Red: Race, Wealth, and Social Policy in America on October 30, 2009
Being Black, Living in the Red: Race, Wealth, and Social Policy in America
In a nutshell, this book is about the effect wealth (not just income) has in determining who will finish school, who will find steady work, and who will (or won't) be poor. It demonstrates how difficult it can be to determine causation, and to tease out the roles played by race or class. Sometimes the two are pretty damn near inextricably linked. Basically, the amount of wealth your parents have seems to be a pretty decent predictor of how much wealth you will have. (And black parents generally tend to have less wealth than white parents.) Hence, the cycle continues.
I wish I could do a longer review, but I have more books to read right now than I have time to read them. I'm barely keeping my head above water this semester.
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