Funding White Supremacy - Federal Wealth Policies and the Modern Racial Wealth Gap

The racial wealth gap in America, even in recent decades, is expanding and perpetuating the system of white supremacy. This book details a largely unacknowledged cause: how current federal policies continue this legacy. Through the lens of stratification economics, it explains the origins, evolution, and impact of these politics.

List of contents

1. Recognizing the Wealth - Race Nexus; 2. Understanding How Households Get Ahead; 3. Looking Back; 4. Revealing Tax Expenditures; 5. Inspecting the Leaky Bucket; 6. Exploring Past Roots; 7. Finding the Leaks; 8. Assessing the Higher Education Ladder; 9. Ending Malign Neglect.

About the author

Robert B. Williams is the Stedman Professor of Economics at Guilford College. He is the author of The Privileges of Wealth: Rising Inequality and the Growing Racial Divide (2016).

Product details

• Authors: Robert B. (Guilford College Williams, Williams Robert B.
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 31.07.2025
• EAN: 9781009367844
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0936784-4
• No. of pages: 271
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Stratification Economics: Economics and Social Identity
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Folklore; USA, Economics, Political science & theory, Social discrimination & inequality, United States of America, USA, Ethnic minorities & multicultural studies, Social classes, Political science and theory, Racism and racial discrimination / Anti-racism, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General