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. Why do people of color have so little wealth? The Color of Wealth lays bare a dirty secret: for centuries, people of color have been barred by laws and by discrimination from pa...
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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.