Racial inequality is far deeper than class inequality in the United States.

Evidence

There is no real dispute on its extent and depth: Ina deeply unequal society, whose classbased disparities in wealth and income distribution greatly exceed all other countries at equivalent levels of “development”- Western Europe, Japan, Canada, Australia- inequalities along racial lines are far greater still. Whatever variable one chooses: wealth/ income (in)equality, health outcomes, access to/returns to education, segregation by residence or occupation, rates of surveil-lance or punishment by the criminal “justice” system, or many other indicators that compare racial “lifechances,” one finds strikingly persistent patterns. Black unemployment and poverty are consistently double that of whites (and increase greatly if we factor in incarceration). Median black wealth now stands at about 5 percent of white class recomposition. — Michael Omi, Howard Winant, Racial Formation in the United States, 70

Categorization

• XREF: The 5 percent median black wealth figure and racial-versus-class depth ranking are citable data points to anchor existing CRT and inequality claims in the vault.