Prominent figures from Booker T. Washington to William Julius Wilson have dispensed the same advice to young black men: "Get a trade". This text puts such folk wisdom to an empirical test and exploses the subleties and discrepancies of a workplace that favours the white job seeker over the black.
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Höhe: 229 mm
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978-0-520-22999-0 (9780520229990)
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Deirdre Royster joined the College of William and Mary faculty in 2002 as an associate professor in the Department of Sociology and currently serves as chair of the department. Royster received her doctorate in sociology from the Johns Hopkins University in 1996 and worked from 1996-2000 as an assistant professor at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst Campus. Her research has been supported by the American Sociological Association, the Social Science Research Council, the Spencer Foundation, and the National Academy of Education and she is beginning a new project on the significance of the Crosson v. Richmond case for African American construction firms and workers.
List of Tables Foreword Acknowledgments 1. Introduction 2. "Invisible" and Visible Hands: Racial Disparity in the Labor Market 3. From School to Work ... in Black and White: A Case Study 4. Getting a Job, Not Getting a Job: Employment Divergence Begins 5. Evaluating Market Explanations: The Declining Significance of Race and Racial Deficits Approaches 6. Embedded Transitions: School Ties and the Unanticipated Significance of Race 7. Networks of Inclusion, Networks of Exclusion: The Production and Maintenance of Segregated Opportunity Structures 8. White Privilege and Black Accommodation: Where Past and Contemporary Discrimination Converge Appendix: Subjects' Occupations at the Time of the Study Notes Bibliography Index
