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Beyond Discrimination - Racial Inequality in a Postracist Era (Paperback, New)
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Beyond Discrimination - Racial Inequality in a Postracist Era (Paperback, New)
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Nearly a half century after the civil rights movement, racial
inequality remains a defining feature of American life. Along a
wide range of social and economic dimensions, African Americans
consistently lag behind whites. This troubling divide has persisted
even as many of the obvious barriers to equality, such as
state-sanctioned segregation and overt racial hostility, have
markedly declined. How then can we explain the stubborn persistence
of racial inequality? In Beyond Discrimination: Racial Inequality
in a Post-Racist Era, a diverse group of scholars provides a more
precise understanding of when and how racial inequality can occur
without its most common antecedents, prejudice and discrimination.
Beyond Discrimination focuses on the often hidden political,
economic and historical mechanisms that now sustain the black-white
divide in America. The first set of chapters examines the
historical legacies that have shaped contemporary race relations.
Desmond King reviews the civil rights movement to pinpoint why
racial inequality became an especially salient issue in American
politics. He argues that while the civil rights protests led the
federal government to enforce certain political rights, such as the
right to vote, addressing racial inequities in housing, education,
and income never became a national priority. The volume then
considers the impact of racial attitudes in American society and
institutions. Phillip Goff outlines promising new collaborations
between police departments and social scientists that will improve
the measurement of racial bias in policing. The book finally
focuses on the structural processes that perpetuate racial
inequality. Devin Fergus discusses an obscure set of tax and
insurance policies that, without being overtly racially drawn,
penalizes residents of minority neighborhoods and imposes an
economic handicap on poor blacks and Latinos. Naa Oyo Kwate shows
how apparently neutral and apolitical market forces concentrate
fast food and alcohol advertising in minority urban neighborhoods
to the detriment of the health of the community.
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