9: The Racial Wealth Gap

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• Ulysses Acevedo
• ASCCC Open Educational Resources Initiative (OERI)

By Ulysses Acevedo

Learning Objectives

• Describe and apply the decolonization methodology of testimony, a major theory of Ethnic Studies;
• To understand the historical roots and contemporary consequences of racialized wealth disparities in the U.S.;
• To identify and analyze some of the counternarratives and social movements that have combated the increasing gap of racial wealth disparities.

• 9.1: Introduction

• 9.2: Testimony as a Decolonial Methodology

• 9.3: Racial Wealth Disparities

• 9.4: Why is Wealth So Unequal in the U.S.?

• 9.5: Counternarratives in Racial Wealth Disparities

• 9.6: Summary/Review

• 9.7: References

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