Color of Wealth The Story Behind the U. S. Racial Wealth Divide

Name: Color of Wealth The Story Behind the U. S. Racial Wealth Divide
Price: 4.44 USD
Availability: InStock
ISBN: 9781595580047

ISBN-10: 1595580042

ISBN-13: 9781595580047

Edition: 2006

Authors: Meizhu Lui, Barbara J. Robles, Betsy Leondar-Wright, Rose M. Brewer, Rebecca Adamson

List price: $23.95

30 day, 100% satisfaction guarantee!

Buy used: $7.12

Marketplace

3 new & used from $4.44

what's this?

Rush Rewards U
Members Receive:

You have reached 400 XP and carrot coins. That is the daily max!

Description:

An eye-opening field guide to the wealth gap. 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 participating in government wealth-building programs that benefit white Americans. This accessible bookpublished in conjunction with one of the country's leading economics education organizationsmakes the case that until government policy tackles disparities in wealth, not just income, the United States will never have racial or economic justice. …

Book details

List price: $23.95
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: New Press, The
Publication date: 6/5/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 326
Size: 7.52" wide x 9.26" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 1.518
Language: English

Betsy Leondar-Wright is the Program Director of Class Action (www.classism.org). She is the author of Class Matters: Cross-Class Alliance Building for Middle-Class Activists and coauthor of The Color of Wealth: The Story Behind the U.S. Racial Wealth Divide.




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