AuthorConley, Dalton
TitleBeing 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

  1. African Americans -- Economic conditions
  2. African Americans -- Social conditions -- 1975-
  3. Social classes -- United States -- History 20th century
  4. United States -- Race relations
  5. United States -- Social policy -- 1980-1993
  6. United States -- Social policy -- 1993-

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