Reproducing racism how everyday choices lock in white advantage
"This book is designed to change the way we think about racial inequality. Long after the passage of civil rights laws and now the inauguration of our first black president, blacks and Latinos possess barely a nickel of wealth for every dollar that whites have. Why have we made so little progre...
| Main Author: | Roithmayr, Daria (Author) |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
New York University Press,
[2014]
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Table of Contents:
- The more things change, the more they stay the same : some (incomplete and unsatisfying) explanations for persistent inequality
- Cheating at the starting line : how white racial cartels gained an early unfair advantage during Jim Crow
- Racial cartels in action : an in-depth look at historical racials cartels in housing and politics
- Oh dad, poor dad : how whites' early unfair advantage in wealth became self-reinforcing over time
- It's how you play the game : how whites created institutional rules that favored them over time
- Not what you know, but who you know : how social networks reproduce early advantage
- Please won't you be my neighbor? : How neighborhood effects reproduce racial segregation
- Locked in : how white advantage may now have become hard-wired into the system
- Reframing race : how the lock-in model helps us to think in new ways about racial inequality
- Unlocking lock-in : some general observations (and one or two suggestions) on dismantling lock-in.