Race, Debt, and Economic Inequality

  • Priorities and challenges: Wealth management and financial planning among affluent Black families

  • At the Intersection of Race, Occupational Status, and Middle-Class Attainment in Young Adulthood

  • Disparate Recoveries: Wealth, Race, and the Working Class after the Great Recession

  • A subaltern middle class: The case of the missing “Black bourgeoisie” in America

  • Racial Disparities in Student Debt and the Reproduction of the Fragile Black Middle Class

  • Young, Black, and (Still) in the Red: Parental Wealth, Race, and Student Loan Debt

Latest articles:

Addo, Fenaba and Xing Zhang. 2024. “Gender Stratification, Racial Disparities, and Student Debt Trajectories in Young Adulthood.” Research in Social Stratification and Mobility.


Addo, Fenaba, William A. Darity, Jr., Samuel L. Myers, Jr. 2024. “Setting the Record Straight on Racial Wealth Inequality.”American Economic Association: Papers and Proceedings. 114: 169-173.

Jermaine Toney, Fenaba Addo, and Darrick Hamilton. 2024. “Measuring the Racial Wealth Gap.” American Economic Association: Papers and Proceedings. 114: 186-190.