Race, Class and Conservatism
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Black Capitalist
Black Capitalist Class
Black Class Structure
Black Conservatism
Black Social Classes
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classes
conservative
Contemporary Society
discrimination
Discrimination Coefficient
Dual Labor Market
Earnings Advantage
Earnings Disadvantage
East Indies
economic stratification
empirical social research
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Hourly Earnings
Independent Primary Sector
labour market inequality
LMS Theory
middle
persistent wage discrimination
Primary Sector
public policy impact
racial income disparity
Racial Income Inequality
Secondary Sector
Secondary Sector Workers
Segmented Labor Markets
social
society
sociological analysis
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structure
Truncation Bias
wage
Weberian Method
White Class Structures
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- ISBN 9781138464735
- Weight: 520g
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 15 Dec 2017
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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First Published in 1988. The author's arguments are a response to five recent and controversial books: Thomas Sowell's Markets and Minorities and Civil Rights: Rhetoric or Reality?, Walter Williams's State Against Blacks, George Gilder's Wealth and Poverty, and William J. Wilson's Declining Significance of Race. These authors insist that racial discrimination can no longer explain the disadvantaged position of blacks in American society; indeed, while sociologists argue that class has become more important than race, conservative economists insist that disparities in earnings are a fair reflection of racial differences in education, skills, and similar measures of productivity. Free markets, they contend, are anathemas to racial discrimination. Dr Boston demonstrates that these views lack empirical support and explains how discrimination persists in labor markets. While acknowledging that class position is increasingly important he nevertheless illustrates how black class stratification itself uniquely reflects racial subjugation. But in the author's own words, 'These findings will not be received comfortably by conservatives because they are just another chapter in the continuing saga of why their revolution has failed so miserably. Flawed theory creates failed policies'. Yet his book is of major importance in understanding the current position of black people in society and the reality that has to be addressed in contemporary public policy. More than this he provides a solution to the riddle of race and class which has eluded social investigators for decades.
Thomas D. Boston, an Associate Professor of Management at the Georgia Institute of Technology, received his PhD degree in economics from Cornell University. He has lectured on race and class in the People's Republic of China and served as visiting scholar in economics at Stanford University.
