Race and wealth disparities : a multidisciplinary discourse / edited by Beverly Moran.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Moran, Beverly I.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Wealth.

Income distribution.

Equality--Economic aspects.

Equality.

African Americans--Economic conditions.

African Americans.

Physical Description:

xxiii, 180 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Md. : University Press of America, [2008]

Summary:

Race and Wealth Disparities is a multidisciplinary reader on the subject of race and wealth primarily, yet not exclusively, within the United States. The authors represent a number of social science and humanities perspectives from anthropology, economics, education policy, history, literature, and law, to management, political science, social psychology, and sociology. The authors also represent an attempt to create a dialogue across institutions with four of the authors representing Fisk University, a historically Black University. Because of this unique approach of having authors from ten different disciplines address questions of race and wealth, this study is able to provide substantive information about race and wealth disparities as well as giving the reader a greater and more textured understanding of multidisciplinary work. In this regard, the text models a multidisciplinary conversation in a way that is meant to help others enter into interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary work. The essays came out of a series of workshops between professors from fourteen different disciplines and four different universities. Therefore, the essays are meant to explain the disciplines these professors represent as well as to convey and analyze the subject at hand.

Contents:

Preface

Introduction

Origins of global wealth disparities : a world history case study / James A. Quirin

Racial differences in wealth : a brief historical overview / William J. Collins and Robert A. Margo

'Location, location, location' : residential segregation and wealth disparity / M. Elizabeth Kirkland and Sheila Peters

Corporatism and inequality : the race to the bottom (line) / Bruce Barry and Jason Stansbury

A selective review of sociological perspectives on the relationship between race and wealth / Tony N. Brown and Daniel B. Cornfield

Federalism and equity : evolution of federal educational policy / Kenneth K. Wong

History and education : mining the gap : historically black colleges as centers of excellence for engaging disparities in race and wealth / Roland Mitchell and Reavis Mitchell, Jr.

Wealth whiteout : creative writers confront whites' downward mobility in America's newest gilded age / Cecelia Tichi

Selling identities : a cultural approach to race and identity politics in the postmodern age / Edward Fischer

The 'currency' and 'purchase' of literary criticism / Dennis D. Kezar

Race and wealth disparity : the role of law and the legal system / Beverly Moran and Stephanie M. Wildman

Index

Author bibliographies.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780761839255

0761839259

9780761839262

0761839267

OCLC:

190394045