Acknowledgments
1. Wealth Matters
2. Forty Acres and a Mule: Historical and Contemporary Obstacles to
Black Property Accumulation
3. From Financial to Social to Human Capital:Assets and
Education
4. Up the Down Escalator: Wealth, Work, and Wages
5. It Takes a Village? Premarital Childbearing and Welfare
Dependency
6. Getting into the Black: Conclusions and Policy
Implications
Afterword: Living in the Red, a Decade Later
Appendix
Notes
Index
Dalton Conley is University Professor, Chair of Sociology, and Acting Dean of Social Sciences at New York University. He is also Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and Adjunct Professor of Community Medicine at Mt.Sinai School of Medicine.
"Being Black, Living in the Red is an important contribution to our
overall understanding of social stratification in modern society.
It provides an excellent introduction to the subject for students
and is an important piece of scholarship for all social scientists
interested in inequality."
*American Journal of Sociology*
"Being Black, Living in the Red provides an insightful and thorough
analysis of America's racial wealth gap. . . . A major
statement that demands the attention of scholars, policy makers,
and others interested in race and class dynamics in America. This
book cannot be ignored, and it deserves credit for moving the
discussion of race and class inequality forward in important new
ways. Perhaps most important, it makes it possible to consider
several policy options that are not usually part of the
debate."
*Contemporary Sociology*
"Within the race-versus-class framework, this is an outstanding
book . . . A must read. The policy implications are weighty.
As Conley argues, current policies meant to address racial
inequality will not work. Equality of opportunity, given that
wealth begets wealth, will never be enough to move toward racial
equality. And it is with this realization that our nation must now
wrestle."
*Social Forces*
"Conley develops a very cogent argument for reorienting the debate
of race and poverty. . . . In the context of the larger
race-and- wealth discourse, Conley's work is an important
contribution that adds a different dimension to the traditional
notions of 'class.'"
*New Labor Forum*
"Being Black, Living in the Red cogently and convincingly argues
that much of the literature on racial disparities—in education,
employment, and welfare receipt—suffers from a missing variable
problem. The missing variable is family wealth."
*Journal of Economic Literature*
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