The Difference Between Us: Racial Classification as Cultural

Episode 1

Think about race in its universality. Where is your measurement device? We sometimes do it by skin color, other people may do it by hair texture... There is no way to measure race.

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The Hidden Cost of Being African American: How Wealth Perpetuates Inequality

by Thomas M. Shapiro, Oxford Univ. 238 pp | Reviewed by: Michael Hout

A look at how the government created massive wealth inequities between African Americans and whites through residential segregation, why those issues still persist today, and what should be done about it.

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