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Reproducing Racism

How Everyday Choices Lock In White Advantage
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"Should be required reading for anyone who believes in simple causation or easy fixes for the equality gap... Clear-eyed and often brutal." - Dahlia Lithwick, Senior Editor, Slate
Acknowledgments Introduction 1. The More Things Change, the More They Stay the Same Some (Incomplete and Unsatisfying) Explanations for Persistent Inequality 2. Cheating at the Starting Line How White Racial Cartels Gained an Early Unfair Advantage during Jim Crow 3. Racial Cartels in Action An In-Depth Look at Historical Racial Cartels in Housing and Politics 4. Oh Dad, Poor DadHow Whites' Early Unfair Advantage in Wealth Became Self-Reinforcing over Time 5. It's How You Play the Game How Whites Created Institutional Rules That Favored Them over Time 6. Not What You Know, but Who You Know How Social Networks Reproduce Early Advantage 7. Please Won't You Be My Neighbor?How Neighborhood Effects Reproduce Racial Segregation 8. Locked In How White Advantage May Now Have Become Hard-Wired into the System 9. Reframing Race How the Lock-In Model Helps Us to Think in New Ways about Racial Inequality 10. Unlocking Lock-In Some General Observations (and One or Two Suggestions) on Dismantling Lock-In Conclusion Notes Index About the Author
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