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Prismatic metropolis : inequality in Los Angeles / Lawrence D. Bobo ... [and others], editors.
Van Pelt Library HN79.C22 L677 2000
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Van Pelt Library HN79.C22 L677 2000
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- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Multi city study of urban inequality
- A volume in the multi-city study of urban inequality
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Demographic surveys.
- Equality.
- Minorities.
- Economic conditions.
- Social conditions.
- Discrimination in employment.
- Los Angeles County (Calif.)--Social conditions.
- Los Angeles County (Calif.).
- Los Angeles County (Calif.)--Economic conditions.
- Los Angeles County (Calif.)--Race relations.
- Discrimination in employment--California--Los Angeles County.
- Minorities--California--Los Angeles County--Social conditions.
- Minorities--California--Los Angeles County--Economic conditions.
- Equality--California--Los Angeles County.
- Demographic surveys--California--Los Angeles County.
- California--Los Angeles County.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 611 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Russell Sage Foundation, [2000]
- Contents:
- Part I Introduction: Foundations of a Prismatic Metropolis
- Chapter 1 Analyzing Inequality in Los Angeles / Lawrence D. Bobo, Melvin L. Oliver, James H. Johnson Jr., Abel Valenzuela Jr. 3
- Chapter 2 A Demographic Portrait of Los Angeles County, 1970 to 1990 / David M. Grant 51
- Chapter 3 Racial Attitudes in a Prismatic Metropolis: Mapping Identity, Stereotypes, Competition, and Views on Affirmative Action / Lawrence D. Bobo, Devon Johnson 81
- Part II Opportunities Divided: Race, Space, and Gender in Los Angeles
- Chapter 4 Residential Segregation in Los Angeles / Camille Zubrinsky Charles 167
- Chapter 5 Racial Differences in Labor Force Participation and Long-Term Joblessness Among Less-Educated Men / Michael I. Lichter, Melvin L. Oliver 220
- Chapter 6 Latino Earnings Inequality: Immigrant and Native-Born Differences / Abel Valenzuela Jr., Elizabeth Gonzalez 249
- Chapter 7 A Protected Niche? Immigrant Ethnic Economies and Labor Market Segmentation / Tarry Hum 279
- Chapter 8 African American Males in Decline: A Los Angeles Case Study / James H. Johnson Jr., Walter C. Farrell Jr., Jennifer A. Stoloff 315
- Chapter 9 Child Care as Poverty Policy: the Effect of Child Care on Work and Family Poverty / Julie E. Press 338
- Chapter 10 Bridging Social Networks and Female Labor Force Participation in a Multiethnic Metropolis / James H. Johnson Jr., Elisa Jayne Bienenstock, Walter C. Farrell Jr., Jennifer L. Glanville 383
- Chapter 11 Search, Discrimination, and the Travel to Work / Michael A. Stoll 417
- Chapter 12 Spatial Mismatch or More of a Mishmash? Multiple Jeopardy and the Journey to Work / Julie E. Press 453
- Part III Understanding Processes of Discrimination
- Chapter 13 Racial Attitudes and Power in the Workplace: Do the Haves Differ from the Have-Nots? / Lawrence D. Bobo, Devon Johnson, Susan A. Suh 491
- Chapter 14 Surveying Racial Discrimination: Analyses from a Multiethnic Labor Market / Lawrence D. Bobo, Susan A. Suh 523
- Chapter 15 Women's Perceptions of Workplace Discrimination: Impacts of Racial Group, Gender, and Class / Susan A. Suh 561.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0871541297
- OCLC:
- 43569209
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