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Wealth Accumulation and Communities of Color in the United States: Current Issues
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Description for Wealth Accumulation and Communities of Color in the United States: Current Issues
Paperback. Features interdisciplinary research about aggregate wealth levels, portfolio compositions, and asset-ownership patterns. This collection discusses several conceptual issues, including gender and class; the political, historical, and socio-economic contexts and consequences of wealth inequalities; intra-group inequality; and more. Editor(s): Nembhard, Jessica Gordon; Chiteji, Ngina. Num Pages: 448 pages, 65 tables, 13 figures, 1 photo. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSL; KCB. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 513.
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.
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.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
University of Michigan Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
448
Place of Publication
Ann Arbor, United States
ISBN
9780472069583
SKU
V9780472069583
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99-3
About
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.
Reviews for Wealth Accumulation and Communities of Color in the United States: Current Issues
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 ... Read more