Wealth Accumulation and Communities of Color in the United States: Current Issues - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0472069586 ISBN 13: 9780472069583

Publisher: University of Michigan Press, 2006

Synopsis

Wealth Accumulation and Communities of Color in the United States features innovative, interdisciplinary research about aggregate wealth levels, portfolio compositions, and asset-ownership patterns. This collection discusses a number of conceptual issues, including gender and class; the political, historical, and socio-economic contexts and consequences of wealth inequalities; intra-group inequality; the forms of wealth held by different subgroups of the U.S. population; and spatial-geographic considerations.

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Review:

This book does an outstanding job of introducing readers to a host of interesting questions related to racial and ethnic minority status and wealth composition and accumulation. The chapters on wealth accumulation among Native Americans, Latinos, and Asian Americans offer one of the few places where this information is readily available. The recent disaster in New Orleans has shown the nation that there is a strong interaction between wealth, race, and social outcomes. This book fills a void in understanding not only the black-white wealth inequality that was apparent after Hurricane Katrina, but it also provides great insight into the wealth status of other racial and ethnic minorities. - Patrick L. Mason, Department of Economics, Florida State University

About the Author:

Jessica Gordon Nembhard is Assistant Professor in the African American Studies Department and Co-founder of The Democracy Collaborative at University of Maryland, College Park. Ngina Chiteji is Associate Professor of Economics at Skidmore College.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Michigan Press
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0472069586
• ISBN 13: 9780472069583
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 448
• Editor: Nembhard Jessica Gordon, Chiteji Ngina