Parental financial support nearly eliminates the black-white college graduation gap.

Evidence

The Pew study also showed the importance of parental financial support in eliminating the college graduation gap. Without financial support, only 11.2 percent of black children complete college, compared with 25 percent of white children. However, with financial support, the percentages of whites (68 percent) and blacks (66 percent) who complete college are comparable. — Dorothy A. Brown, The Whiteness of Wealth, 308

Categorization

• XREF: Directly supports the chapter’s core argument that the racial wealth gap drives downstream gaps like graduation — connects to the book’s running thesis.