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Individualistic Fallacy
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Racism belongs to realm of ideas and prejudices- labeling someone racist treats racism...
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Legalistic Fallacy
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Abolishing racist laws abolishes racism- laws don't ensure no more offenses
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Eugenics
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Social agenda to breed best whites and avoid "contamination"- sterilization- systematic matings
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Race
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not biologically realsymbolic categorysocial context: place-specifichistorical: time-specific
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Ethnicity vs Nationality*
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E: a shared lifestyle informed by cultural, hisotrical, religious, and/or national affiliationsN: membership...
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Race vs Ethnicity*
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R: definition imposed by others and cannot be changedE: definition determined by...
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Tokenistic Fallacy
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Assumes that the presences of people of color in influential positions is evidence that racism...
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Ahistorical Fallacy
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Assumes history is nonsequential
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Fixed Fallacy
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Assumes racism is fixed and constant across space and time- can't conclude racism...
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Domination*
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Political, social and economic power, as the symbolic power to classify one group as "normal" and other...
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Intersectionality*
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Racial domination intersects with gender, class, sexuality, religion, nationality; overlapping...
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Institutional Racism
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Systemic white domination of people of color, embedded and operating in universities, corporations,...
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Interpersonal racism
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racial domination manifests in dispositions and practices
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Laisse-faire racism*
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opposition to addressing any racial problems due to the belief in the self-regulating capacity...
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color blind privilege
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majority of white believe racism is thing of past and black have as good chance in procuring housing...
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Invisible Knapsack*
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taken for granted and analysed privileges that most white Americans in our society...
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White Habitus
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"habitus:" physical or constitutional characteristics of an individual- white's high...
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Structure (social structure)*
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-how the parts fit together-set of interrelated components-patters of relationships among the...
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Institutions*
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things that have major significance in the social structure:- economy- family- cultural institutions
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Inequality*
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-difference among people- $$, prestige, and power
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Stratification*
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- different strata/layers of society- Weber's dimension of stratification:--class--status--power
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Symbolic Ethnicity
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white people have option of selecting a symbolic ethnicity
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Functionalist Theory*
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Centers on view that society is made up of many intertwined parts that all serve the purpose...
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Assimilation
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in Latin, to make similarA + B + C = A = White
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Amalgamation
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melting potA + B + C = D
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Cultural Pluralism
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tossed saladA + B + C =
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Conflict Perspective*
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Believe society can be viewed as a constant struggle between groups to gain economic, social,...
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Symbolic Interactionalist Theory
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individuals rather than groups
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biological determinism
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arguments that support that social and economic differences between races are the result...
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racial taxonomy
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'race-based classification system' delineates 5 major groups: Native American and Alaskan Natives,...
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pheonotype
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his or her physical appearance
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ancestry
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his or her family lineage
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naturalization
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a metamorphosis where something created by humans is mistaken as something dictated by nature
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symbolic violence
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process of people of color unknowingly accepting and supporting the terms of their own domination
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white privilege
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collection of unearned cultural, political, economic, and social advantages possessed...
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racial imagery
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the myriad minute decisions that constitute the practices of the world are at every point informed...
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modernity
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historical era marked by the rise of nations and nationalism, the development of capitalism,...
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Colonialism
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foreign power invades a territory and establishes enduring systems of exploitation and...
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indentured servants
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laborers who were bound to an employer for a fixed amount of time, after which they were freeed
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plantation system
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dozens of large settlements organized around agricultural production for profit and...
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chattel slavery
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Africans treated as any other piece of property, bought and sold at owners' discretion
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Atlantic slave trade
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economic system that relied on transporting kidnapped Africans from their homeland to the Americas
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psychological wage
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white group of laborers given public deference and titles of courtesy because white
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slave codes
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regulate blacks in bondage, denied blacks citizenship and governed even most intimate spheres...
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one-drop rule
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renders "black" anyone with any amount, no matter how minuscule, of African blood
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Forty Acres and a Mule
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allotted forty acres to recently freed heads of households as well as to slaves who had fought...
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reconstruction
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time when nation put itself back together, reincorporating the Southern states and reinventing...
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Jim Crow
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racial segregation constitutional because black and white facilities separate but...
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Manifest Destiny
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"The western frontier, all of North America and the lands of Mexico - yes, this is God's will...
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Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
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US acquired land that is now New Mexico, California, Utah, Nevada, parts...
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Indian Territory
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land allotted by the US government for tribal use
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Indian Allotment Act
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dissolved tribal landholding by allotting certain pieces of land to individual Indians...
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the term "Asian"
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European invention, a kind of racial shorthand that subsumes under a single homogenizing category...
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racial discourses
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collections of ideas about race developed by secular authorities such as philosophers, writers,...
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theory of social position
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interpersonal racism will increase in one group the more it feels threatened by another
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racial formation
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sociohistorical process by which racial categories are created, inhabited, and destroyed
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neoconservative racial project
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act in a "color-blind" fashionenforcement of the ideal
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liberal racial project
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state actions in the past and present have treated people in very different ways according...
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racial project
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simultaneously an interpretation, representation, or explanation of racial dynamics,...
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White Man's Burden
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even though you're poor, focus on that you're white
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Bacon's Rebellion
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bonded laborers of African, English, and Irish descent collectively rose up against wealthy...
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black codes
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Restricted and
criminalized activities of newly-freed blacks
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Levittown
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white utopia without people of color
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GI Bill of Rights
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affirmative action for male, Euro-origin GIsforged middle-classvets bought homes, financed...
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New Deal
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FDR's response to Great Depression:- unemployment insurance- minimum wage- workday limitations-...
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deindustrialization
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manufacturing jobs diappearing
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supply-side economics (Reganomics)
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trickle down effect:govt pulls out of market (cut taxes to wealthy)-->wealthy invest-->cheaper...
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income*
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wages and salaries earned form employment, retirement, or government aid
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wealth*
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owned assets that yield monetary return (stocks and bonds, savings accounts, houses and real...
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segregated labor force
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from history of racial domination in US economy-Hispanics work with Hispanics, etc
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redlining
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banks refuse to offer loans for homes in nonwhite neighborhoods
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poverty line
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$$ enough to sustain a decent standard of living
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black ghetto
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racial institution marked by social isolation and economic vulnerability first formed when...
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spatial mismatch thesis
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- explanation for concentrated inner-city poverty- no jobs where you live (all...
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brain drain
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- explanation for concentrated inner-city poverty- more educated, wealthy, and...
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tribal sovereignty
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power of Indian tribes to act as semi-autonomous states, designing and running their own system...
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segmented assimilation theory
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- no monolithic "immigrant experience"- some assimilate into upper classes, some into lower
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class privileges
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skills, education, and training immigrants bring with them
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ethnic enclave
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semi-autonomous economy, large or small, that is owned, operated, and managed by members of...
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opportunity hoarding
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when members of one race "acquire access to a resource that is valuable, renewable, and subject...
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disadvantage breeds disadvantage
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- discriminated against when applying for jobs = spotty work history- spotty work history =...
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split labor market
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- at least two groups of workers whose price of labor differs for the same work- business elite...
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interracialism
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process of forming a racially integrated political community that works toward a...
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glass ceilings
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unspoken obstacles to advancement designed to handicap members of dominated group
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homosocial reproduction
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authorities tend to fill positions of power with people like themselves
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welfare
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government prosvisions intended to help disadvantaged people, including those who are poor,...
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corporate welfare
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government provisions reserved exclusively for corporations or industries, payments and benefits...
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affirmative action
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collection of polices and practices designed to address past wrongs, institutional racism,...
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meritocracy
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one succeeds only on basis of own abilities
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hourglass economy
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- result of end of industrialization- lots of high tech jobs- not a lot of manufacturing jobs...
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wealth inequality
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for every $1 of wealth possessed by middle-class whites, middle-class blacks possess 15 cents
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white poverty vs black poverty
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poor white equal wealth as well-off blacks
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