Being Black, living in the red : race, wealth, and social policy in America
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Being Black, living in the red : race, wealth, and social policy in America
University of California Press, c1999
- : cloth
- : pbk
Available at 11 libraries
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 181-201) and index
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: cloth ISBN 9780520216723
Description
This work demonstrates that many differences between blacks and whites stem not from race but from economic inequalities that have accumulated over the course of American history. Property ownership - as measured by net worth - reflects this legacy of economic oppression. The racial discrepancy in wealth holdings leads to advantages for whites in the form of better schools, more desirable residences, higher wages, and more opportunities to save, invest, and thereby further their economic advantages. Dalton Conley shows how factoring parental wealth into a reconceptualization of class can lead to a different future for race policy in the United States. As it stands at the end of the 20th century, affirmative action programmes primarily address racial diversity in schooling and work - areas that Conley contends generate paradoxical results with respect to racial equity. Instead he suggests an affirmative action policy that fosters minority property accumulation, thereby encouraging long-term wealth equity, or one that - while continuing to address schooling and work - is based on social class as defined by family wealth levels rather than on race.
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: pbk ISBN 9780520216730
Description
Dalton Conley shows how factoring parental wealth into a reconceptualization of class can lead to a different future for race policy in the United States. As it stands at the end of the 20th century, affirmative action programmes primarily address racial diversity in schooling and work - areas that Conley contends generate paradoxical results with respect to racial equity. Instead he suggests an affirmative action policy that fosters minority property accumulation, thereby encouraging long-term wealth equity, or one that - while continuing to address schooling and work - is based on social class as defined by family wealth levels rather than on race.
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