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Book Title: Color of Money : Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap
Number of Pages: 384 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Topic: Banks & Banking, Social Classes & Economic Disparity, Economics / General, Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
Item Height: 1 in
Publication Year: 2019
Genre: Social Science, Business & Economics
Item Weight: 13 Oz
Item Length: 8.2 in
Author: Mehrsa Baradaran
Item Width: 5.5 in
Format: Trade Paperback
