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Author Brueggemann, John

Title Inequality in the United States A Reader
Published Milton : Taylor & Francis Group, 2011

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Description 1 online resource (512 p.)
Contents Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART I-Foundations -- Introduction -- 1: The Manifesto of the Communist Party -- 2: Class, Status, Party -- 3: The Souls of Black Folk -- 4: The Conservation of Races -- 5: Woman Versus The Indian -- 6: Some Principles of Stratification -- 7: Class Counts -- PART II-Class -- Introduction -- 8: Unequal Childhoods -- 9: The Declining Significance of Race -- 10: Poverty in the United States: An Overview -- 11: Digital Inequality: From Unequal Access to Differentiated Use
12: Globalism's Discontents -- PART III-Status -- Section A: Race and Ethnicity -- Introduction -- 13: The 'Morphing' Properties of Whiteness -- 14: A Threat in the Air: How Stereotypes Shape Intellectual Identity and Performance -- 15: The Complexities and Processes of Racial Housing Discrimination -- 16: Historical Context and Hazard Waste Facility Siting: Understanding Temporal Patterns in Michigan -- 17: Are Emily and Greg More Employable than Lakisha and Jamal? A Field Experiment on Labor Market Discrimination
18: Racism without Racists: Color-Blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in America -- 19: The Myth of the Model Minority: Asian Americans Facing Racism -- 20: Multiple Origins, Uncertain Destinies: Hispanics and the American Future -- PART III-Status -- Section B: Gender and Sexuality -- Introduction -- 21: Doing Gender -- 22: Masculinities -- 23: The Gendered Society -- 24: Comparative Gender Stratification -- 25: Hierarchies, Jobs, Bodies: a Theory of Gendered Organizations -- 26: Benefits for Nonhomophobic Societies: an Anthropological Perspective
27: The Gender Pay Gap: Have Women Gone as Far as They Can? -- PART IV-Party -- Introduction -- 28: The Structure of Power in American Society -- 29: Diversity in the Power Elite: How it Happened, Why it Matters? -- 30: Who's Running America? The Bush Restoration -- 31: Power and Powerlessness: Quiescence and Rebellion in an Appalachian Valley -- PART V-Class, Status, and Party -- Introduction -- 32: Sex, Race, Ethnic Inequality in United States Workplaces -- 33: Toward a New Vision: Race, Class, and Gender as Categories of Analysis and Connection -- 34: Intersectionality
35: Flat Broke with Children: Women in the Age of Welfare Reform -- Appendix -- References
Notes Description based upon print version of record
Subject Equality -- United States
Social problems -- United States
Social classes -- United States
Racism -- United States
Poverty -- United States
Sex discrimination -- United States
Economic history
Equality
Poverty
Race relations
Racism
Sex discrimination
Social classes
Social conditions
Social problems
SUBJECT United States -- Race relations. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140494
United States -- Social conditions. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140511
United States -- Economic conditions. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140020
Subject United States
Form Electronic book
ISBN 1000116573
9781000116571