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What wealth distribution disparities between Blacks and whites, men and women, does Lalami note at the end of "Caste"?

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Lalami indicates that the median household income for white households in 2017 was $61,372 while the median household income for Black households that same year was $40,258. She says that white “women make, on average, 80 cents for every dollar a man makes” (131). Black women make 65 cents per dollar and Hispanic women make “58 cents for every dollar a white man makes” (131).