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The Colors of Poverty: Why Racial and Ethnic Disparities Exist (The National Poverty Center Series on Poverty and Public Policy)

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Creators: Ann Chih Lin, David R. Harris
Publisher: Russell Sage Foundation Publications
Category: Book

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Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 331
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.5
Dimensions (in): 9.5 x 6.8 x 1.2

ISBN: 087154539X
Dewey Decimal Number: 362.520973
EAN: 9780871545398
ASIN: 087154539X

Publication Date: August 2008
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Given the increasing diversity of the nation--particularly with respect to its growing Hispanic and Asian populations--why does racial and ethnic difference so often lead to disadvantage? In iThe Colors of Poverty/i, a multidisciplinary group of experts provides a breakthrough analysis of the complex mechanisms that connect poverty and race. P iThe Colors of Poverty/i reframes the debate over the causes of minority poverty by emphasizing the cumulative effects of disadvantage in perpetuating poverty across generations. The contributors consider a kaleidoscope of factors that contribute to widening racial gaps, including education, racial discrimination, social capital, immigration, and incarceration. Michele Lamont and Mario Small grapple with the theoretical ambiguities of existing cultural explanations for poverty disparities. They argue that culture and structure are not competing explanations for poverty, but rather collaborate to produce disparities. Looking at how attitudes and beliefs exacerbate racial stratification, social psychologist Heather Bullock links the rise of inequality in the United States to an increase in public tolerance for disparity. She suggests that the American ethos of rugged individualism and meritocracy erodes support for antipoverty programs and reinforces the belief that people are responsible for their own poverty. Sociologists Darren Wheelock and Christopher Uggen focus on the collateral consequences of incarceration in exacerbating racial disparities and are the first to propose a link between legislation that blocks former drug felons from obtaining federal aid for higher education and the black/white educational attainment gap. Joe Soss and Sanford Schram argue that the increasingly decentralized and discretionary nature of state welfare programs allows for different treatment of racial groups, even when such policies are touted as "race-neutral." They find that states with more blacks and Hispanics on welfare rolls are consistently more likely to impose lifetime limits, caps on benefits for mothers with children, and stricter sanctions. P iThe Colors of Poverty/i is a comprehensive and evocative introduction to the dynamics of race and inequality. The research in this landmark volume moves scholarship on inequality beyond a simple black-white paradigm, beyond the search for a single cause of poverty, and beyond the promise of one "magic bullet" solution. P bANN CHIH LIN/b is associate professor in the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy and Department of Political Science at the University of Michigan. bDAVID R. HARRIS/b is professor of sociology and deputy provost at Cornell University. P iA Volume in the National Poverty Center Series on Poverty and Public Policy/i BR BR

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