The color of wealth : the story behind the U.S. racial wealth divide / Meizhu Lui [and others].

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: United for a Fair Economy
Other Authors: Lui, Meizhu
Language:English
Published: New York : New Press : Distributed by W. W. Norton, 2006.
Subjects:
Wealth > United States.
Poverty > United States.
Income distribution > United States.
Equality > United States.
United States > Race relations > Economic aspects.
Racism > Economic aspects > United States.
United States > Social policy.
Physical Description:vii, 326 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Variant Title:
Racial wealth divide.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • 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.