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Black Wealth/ White Wealth: A New Perspective on Racial Inequality

by Melvin Oliver, Melvin L. Oliver

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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 research analyzes wealth - total assets and debts rather than income alone - to uncover deep and persistent racial inequality in America, and they show how public policies have failed to redress the problem.First published in 1995, Black Wealth / White Wealth is considered a classic exploration of race and show more inequality. It provided, for the first time, systematic empirical evide show less

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Published: 1995
Genres: Economics, Sociology, Nonfiction, General Nonfiction, History, Politics and Government
DDC/MDS: 339.2
LCC: HB835 .O44

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