In 2011 the median wealth for Latino households was $102,798 less than white households, and the median wealth for black households was %104,022 less than white households. For most American households the value of their assets comes mainly from home ownership and the value of their home. How ca the forms of institutional discrimination discussed in American Apartheid help to explain why such a disparity or inequality exists between whites and blacks in terms of their assets?
In 2011 the median wealth for Latino households was $102,798 less than white households, and the median wealth for black households was %104,022 less than white households. For most American households the value of their assets comes mainly from home ownership and the value of their home. How ca the forms of institutional discrimination discussed in American Apartheid help to explain why such a disparity or inequality exists between whites and blacks in terms of their assets?
Sociologists have been concerned with race and race-based discrimination for several years. Even after racial discrimination has been legally banned and accepted as unconstitutional, forms of racism had its roots deep into the society and the social customs. Sociologists Douglas S. Massey and Nancy A. Denton have explored the idea of racial inequality and its relation to class differences in their book, "American Apartheid".
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