The black/white wealth gap : the transgenerational effects of post-reconstruction sharecropping and racial systems on African Americans today

The purpose of this study was to investigate how sharecropping systems, a form of racialized agriculture, instituted in the Post-Reconstruction era has had a profound impact on the inability of many African Americans to generate and pass down wealth to successive generations lending to the sizable g...

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Main Author: Chandra, Michelle Veena
Language:English
Published: University of British Columbia 2011
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2429/37153