Race and the invisible hand : how white networks exclude black men from blue-collar jobs / Deirdre A. Royster.

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Main Author: Royster, Deirdre A. (Deirdre Alexia), 1966-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, c2003.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Invisible and visible hands : racial disparity in the labor market
  • From school to work in black and white : a case study
  • Getting a job, not getting a job : employment divergence begins
  • Evaluating market explanations : "the declining significance of race" and "racial deficits" approaches
  • Embedded transitions : school ties and the unanticipated significance of race
  • Networks of inclusion, networks of exclusion : the production and maintenance of segregated opportunity structures
  • White privilege and black accommodation : where past and contemporary discrimination converge to produce durable inequality.