ISBN:
0814769330
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0814777120
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9780814769331
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9780814777121
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (195 pages)
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Roithmayr, Daria Reproducing Racism
DDC:
305.800973
Keywords:
LAW / General
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POLITICAL SCIENCE / General
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination & Race Relations
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Minority Studies
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Minorities / Economic conditions
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Minorities / Social conditions
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Race discrimination
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Race relations
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Racism
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Whites / Economic conditions
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Whites / Social conditions
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Minderheit
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Wirtschaft
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Racism
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Whites Economic conditions
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Whites Social conditions
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Minorities Economic conditions
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Minorities Social conditions
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Race discrimination
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USA
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Description / Table of Contents:
"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 progress? Legal scholar Daria Roithmayr provocatively argues that racial inequality lives on because white advantage functions as a powerful self-reinforcing monopoly, reproducing itself automatically from generation to generation even in the absence of intentional discrimination. Drawing on work in antitrust law and a range of other disciplines, Roithmayr brilliantly compares the dynamics of white advantage to the unfair tactics of giants like AT & T and Microsoft. With penetrating insight, Roithmayr locates the engine of white monopoly in positive feedback loops that connect the dramatic disparity of Jim Crow to modern racial gaps in jobs, housing and education. Wealthy white neighborhoods fund public schools that then turn out wealthy white neighbors. Whites with lucrative jobs informally refer their friends, who refer their friends, and so on. Roithmayr concludes that racial inequality might now be locked in place, unless policymakers immediately take drastic steps to dismantle this oppressive system. Daria Roithmayr is the George T. and Harriet E. Pfleger Professor of Law at the University of Southern California Gould School of Law. An internationally acclaimed legal scholar and activist, she is one of the country's leading voices on the legal analysis of structural racial inequality. Prior to joining USC, Professor Roithmayr advised Senator Edward Kennedy on the nominations of Clarence Thomas and David Souter, and taught law at the University of Illinois"--
Note:
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https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780814769331
URL:
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