Being Black Living In The Red Analysis

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My group was assigned Being Black, Living in The Red by Dalton Conley. The book discusses race, wealth, and social policy in America. The overall premise of this book is that to understand a family’s well-being and the life chances of its children fully, we must consider factors such as income, education, and occupation, and we must also consider accumulated wealth. However, the overall argument of the book is that when studying the racial disparities in America researchers have overlooked a vital missing variable: accumulated family wealth. The book is broken up into separate, statistical analysis by chapter that each support the overall argument presented in the first