Question 1

How successful were the land policies related to formerly enslaved African Americans?

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Question 2

Between 1870 and 1970, what happened to the Black population in the South?

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Question 3

How did government policies contribute to wealth inequality?

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Question 4

What does William A. Darity, Jr., a professor of public policy and African American studies at Duke University say about the origins of the racial wealth gap?

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Question 5

Between 1993 and 2000, what were the consequences of subprime mortgages in Black and Latino neighborhoods?

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Question 6

What are the effects on children who live in segregated, high-poverty neighborhoods?

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Question 7

Do Black families want to live in diverse neighborhoods? What does the research say?

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Question 8

How do highly educated Black families fare with wealth compared to White households with a high school diploma or less?

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Question 9

When stock prices plummeted in 2007, Black and Latino families lost the largest share of their holdings. What kind of declines did they see?

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Question 10

The wealth gap between Blacks and Whites tripled between 1984 and 2009. In 2013, researchers wanted to find out why. In a study of 1,700 households, they attributed the wealth gap to five factors. Please name two of them.

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Question 11

In the introduction to this chapter, a writer and activist, George Monbiot said, "If wealth was the inevitable result of hard work and enterprise, every woman in Africa would be a millionaire." What did he mean by this?

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Question 12

Between 1900 and 1940, Kansas City went from being a racially integrated city to one with a segregation index of 88.0. What does this mean?

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Question 13

What did a recent Long Island study that used undercover paired-tests to evaluate racial discrimination by real estate agents find? Two undercover testers (either one White and one Black; or one White and one Latinx; or one White and one Asian) would approach real estate agents with identical financial profiles and neighborhood preferences.

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Question 14

What did Amy Traub et al (2017) find out about the factors many people think explain wealth inequality, such as education and out-of-wedlock birth?

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Question 15

Several researchers recently dispelled 10 myths about closing the racial wealth gap. What was one of the myths and explain what they dispelled?

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Quiz 10: Inequality in Housing and Wealth