Reproducing Racism: How Everyday Choices Lock In White

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Reproducing Racism: How Everyday Choices Lock In White Advantage

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?
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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.
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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.

Country	USA
Author	Daria Roithmayr
Binding	Hardcover
EAN	9780814777121
ISBN	0814777120
IsEligibleForTradeIn	1
Label	NYU Press
Manufacturer	NYU Press
NumberOfItems	1
NumberOfPages	205
PublicationDate	2014-01-20
Publisher	NYU Press
ReleaseDate	2014-01-20
Studio	NYU Press

Reproducing Racism: How Everyday Choices Lock In White Advantage

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