Brief Summary of Chapter 5

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White Cultural Dominance Is Not Working

Chapter 5 reviews the evidence that America is not moving toward becoming a society without racism. The persistence of racism in the areas of criminal justice, education, and economic opportunity are described. In these and other areas, American society is not working for people of color. Although surveys

More Evidence that Racial Wealth Divide is Increasing

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In September of 2017 the Institute for Policy Studies and Prosperity New released an update on their 2016 report, The Ever-Growing Gap: Without Change, African-American and Latino Families Won't Match White Wealth for Centuries. The new study is entitled, The Road to Zero Wealth, How the Racial Wealth Divide is Hollowing Out American's Middle Class