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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• CHRIS WHEAT
• FIONA GREIG
• DAMON JONES
• William A. Darity
• Lucas Hubbard
• Gwendolyn L. Wright

Titel

COVID-19 Effects on Black Business-Owner Households

Ist Teil von

• The Pandemic Divide, 2022, p.186

Ort / Verlag

Duke University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2022

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• The COVID-19 pandemic and its aftermath will likely have disparate impacts on black business-owning households relative to their white counterparts for a number of reasons: the concentration of essential workers in specific neighborhoods, differential access to healthcare, and wealth inequality, among others. Given what we know about overall black-white wealth gaps, we might expect black households to generally be more vulnerable to the various shocks brought upon by the global health crisis. In particular, the financial resilience of households that generate wealth and income through small business ownership may be especially correlated with race during this period. In this chapter,