Racial wealth and health gaps persist across income, inheritance, and longevity

Evidence

Blacks and Latinos get less earnings and less retirement income — just over half of what whites get. Blacks inherit less than whites, and their businesses have less capital … In 1993 the average life expectancy of blacks was 7.1 years less than whites. The health treatment they receive is generally worse — “fewer mammograms, immunizations and ambulatory care visits than for white people, but greater mortality and admissions to hospital.” — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1831

Categorization

• XREF: The inheritance gap strongly connects to discussions of racial wealth and compounding capital — same terrain as Oliver and Shapiro’s work on the racial wealth gap. — connects to: Black economic inequality relative to whites remained structurally fixed across multiple decades — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology: Key Readings, 3351; Racial income inequality persists despite near-parity in education — Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis, Schooling in Capitalist America:…, 453