March 19, 1999
A Ghetto Childhood Inspires the Research of a Yale Sociologist
Dalton Conley says family assets, not income, explain continuing black-white inequalities
Dalton Conley may not be the first young man to rise from the ghetto and carve out a promising career as a scholar of race and poverty. Yet he attributes his escape less to brains and pluck than to an accident of birth: Despite his parents' low income, he says, he had the good fortune to grow up white and middle class.
After spending his
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