Being Black, living in the red: race, wealth, and social policy in America

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