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Reproducing racism : how everyday choices lock in white advantage / Daria Roithmayr.
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- Author/Creator:
- Roithmayr, Daria.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Racism--United States.
- Racism.
- White people.
- Social conditions.
- Economic conditions.
- United States.
- White people--United States--Economic conditions.
- White people--United States--Social conditions.
- Minorities--United States--Economic conditions.
- Minorities.
- Minorities--United States--Social conditions.
- Race discrimination--United States.
- Race discrimination.
- United States--Race relations.
- Race relations.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (206 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- New York, New York ; London, England : New York University Press, 2014.
- System Details:
- text file
- Contents:
- 1 The More Things Change, the More They Stay the Same Some (Incomplete and Unsatisfying) Explanations for Persistent Inequality 13
- 2 Cheating at the Starting Line: How White Racial Cartels Gained an Early Unfair Advantage during Jim Crow 25
- 3 Racial Cartels in Action: An In-Depth Look at Historical Racial Cartels in Housing and Politics 38
- 4 Oh Dad, Poor Dad: How Whites' Early Unfair Advantage in Wealth Became Self-Reinforcing over Time 55
- 5 It's How You Play the Game: How Whites Created Institutional Rules That Favored Them over Time 69
- 6 Not What You Know, but Who You Know: How Social Networks Reproduce Early Advantage 82
- 7 Please Won't You Be My Neighbor?: How Neighborhood Effects Reproduce Racial Segregation 93
- 8 Locked In: How White Advantage May Now Have Become Hard-Wired into the System 108
- 9 Reframing Race: How the Lock-In Model Helps Us to Think in New Ways about Racial Inequality 121
- 10 Unlocking Lock-In: Some General Observations (and One or Two Suggestions) on Dismantling Lock-In 135.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Local Notes:
- Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2014. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Roithmayr, Daria. Reproducing racism : how everyday choices lock in white advantage.
- ISBN:
- 9780814769331
- OCLC:
- 875865577
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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