Being black, living in the red : race, wealth and social policy in America / Dalton Conley
Imprint
Berkeley : California University Press, 1999
Descript
viii, 209 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
CONTENT
Wealth matters -- Forty acres and a mule: historical and contemporary obstacles to black property accumulation -- From financial to social to human capital: assets and education -- Up the down escalator: wealth, work, and wages -- It takes a village? premarital childbearing and welfare dependency -- Getting into the black: conclusions and policy implications
SUBJECT
African Americans -- Economic conditions
African Americans -- Social conditions -- 1975-
Social classes -- United States -- History 20th century