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Title Wealth accumulation & communities of color in the United States : current issues / Jessica Gordon Nembhard & Ngina Chiteji, editors
Published Ann Arbor : The University of Michigan Press, [2006]
©2006

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 363 pages) : charts
Series Book collections on Project MUSE
Contents Measurement & methodology. Wealth measurement : issues for people of color in the United States / Wilhelmina A. Leigh -- Estimating the effect of race & ethnicity on wealth accumulation & asset-ownership patterns / Ngina Chiteji & Darrick Hamilton -- Intragroup inequality. Determinants of intragroup wealth inequality among Whites, Blacks, & Latinos / Yuval Elmelech -- Women & wealth / Mariko Lin Chang -- Data & information about specific communities of color. Native Americans' wealth / Jay L. Zagorsky -- Trouble in paradise : the economic marginalization of Native Hawaiians / Paul Ong -- Asian Americans & wealth / Paul Ong & R. Varisa Patraporn -- Financial marketplace participation & pension holdings over the life course / Ngina Chiteji, Elena Gouskova, & Frank Stafford -- Wealth effects & communities. Banking & wealth accumulation in the Asian American community : questions & evidence from Los Angeles / Gary Dymski, Lisa Mohanty, & Wei Li -- Wealth creation in Latino communities : Latino families, community assets, & cultural capital / Bárbara J. Robles -- Living where the neighbors are invested : wealth & racial/ethnic differences in individuals' neighborhood home ownership rates / Rachael A. Woldoff -- Wealth, civic engagement, & democratic practice / Jessica Gordon Nembhard & Anthony A. Blasingame -- Trends & trapppings, research & policy implications : an unorthodox policy guide / Jessica Gordon Nembhard
Summary "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"--Publisher's description
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL
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Subject Wealth -- United States
Minorities -- United States -- Economic conditions
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Economic Conditions.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Economics -- Macroeconomics.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- General.
Minorities -- Economic conditions
Wealth
Minderheitenfrage
Wirtschaftliche Lage
Besitz
Richesse -- États-Unis.
Minorités -- États-Unis -- Conditions sociales.
United States
USA
Form Electronic book
Author Gordon Nembhard, Jessica, 1956- editor.
Chiteji, Ngina, 1966- editor.
LC no. 2020706694
ISBN 9780472024902
0472024906
1282534505
9781282534506
9786612534508
6612534508
0472099582
9780472099580
0472069586
9780472069583
Other Titles Wealth accumulation and communities of color in the United States