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Melvin L. Oliver

Researcher at University of California, Los Angeles

Publications -  34
Citations -  3369

Melvin L. Oliver is an academic researcher from University of California, Los Angeles. The author has contributed to research in topics: Racism & Redistribution of income and wealth. The author has an hindex of 15, co-authored 34 publications receiving 3265 citations.

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Black Wealth, White Wealth: A New Perspective on Racial Inequality.

TL;DR: Oliver et al. as discussed by the authors used the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) data set to measure individual net worth (all wealth) and net financial assets (net worth minus housing equity and automobile value) as they artfully describe the trend of deepening economic inequality between the races since the 1980s.
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Black Wealth/White Wealth: A New Perspective on Racial Inequality

TL;DR: A Sociology of Wealth and Racial Inequality: A Story of Two Nations: Race and Wealth as discussed by the authors is a sociological study of race, wealth, and inequality in America.
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The urban black community as network: toward a social network perspective

TL;DR: The social organization of Afro-American urban communities has often been viewed in a negative manner as discussed by the authors as an alternative to traditional approaches to urban social organization that stress “patholog...
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Interethnic minority conflict in urban america: the effects of economic and social dislocations

TL;DR: This paper drew attention to a newly emerging type of intergroup conflict occurring among members of nonwhite ethnic minority groups (i.e., blacks, Hispanics, and Asians) in U.S. cities.