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Reproducing Racism How Everyday Choices Lock in White Advantage

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ISBN-10: 0814777120

ISBN-13: 9780814777121

Edition: 2014

Authors: Daria Roithmayr

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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? 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…    
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Book details

List price: $89.00
Copyright year: 2014
Publisher: New York University Press
Publication date: 1/20/2014
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 272
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English

Daria Roithmayr is the George T. and Harriet E. Pfleger Professor of Law at the University of Southern California Gould School of Law. An internationally acclaimed legal scholar and activist, she is one of the country’s leading voices on the legal analysis of structural racial inequality. Prior to joining USC, Professor Roithmayr advised Senator Edward Kennedy on the nominations of Clarence Thomas and David Souter, and taught law at the University of Illinois.