Faded Dreams : The Politics and Economics of Race in America

Faded Dreams : The Politics and Economics of Race in America

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Faded Dreams paints a new and challenging picture of how racial inequality has evolved in America. Martin Carnoy shows that three dominant views of economic differences between blacks and whites--that blacks are individually responsible for not taking advantage of market opportunities, that the world economy has changed in ways that puts blacks at a tremendous disadvantage compared to whites, and that pervasive racism is holding blacks down--do not adequately explain why blacks made such large gains in the past and stopped making them in the 1980s and 1990s. Using a systematic analysis of fifty years of data on income, education, and the variety of jobs that both blacks and whites have held, Faded Dreams offers a powerful argument for active government intervention to improve the education and living conditions of disadvantaged black children.

Faded Dreams : The Politics and Economics of Race in America,Martin Carnoy,Cambridge University Press,0521576393,Business & Economics,Business/Economics,Economic Conditions,Economics - General,Minority Studies - Ethnic American,Sociology,Afro-Americans--Economic conditions,Business & Economics / Economics / General,Economics,Human rights,USA

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