The color of wealth : the story behind the U.S. racial wealth divide / Meizhu Lui [and others].
"For every dollar owned by the average white family in the United States, the average family of color has less than a dime. Wealth, not income alone, may be the most revealing index of inequality in America. The Color of Wealth lays bare the roots of the racial wealth divide and reveals the dec...
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New York :
New Press,
2006.
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Table of 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.