Reproducing Racism : : How Everyday Choices Lock In White Advantage / / Daria Roithmayr.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
• VerfasserIn: Roithmayr, Daria,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2014]; ©2014
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

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 to the unfair tactics of giants like AT&T and Microsoft.With penetrating insight, Roithmayr locates the engine of white monopoly in positive feedback loops that connect the dramatic disparity of Jim Crow to modern racial gaps in jobs, housing and education. Wealthy white neighborhoods fund public schools that then turn out wealthy white neighbors. Whites with lucrative jobs informally refer their friends, who refer their friends, and so on. Roithmayr concludes that racial inequality might now be locked in place, unless policymakers immediately take drastic steps to dismantle this oppressive system.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. The More Things Change, the More They Stay the Same -- 2. Cheating at the Starting Line -- 3. Racial Cartels in Action -- 4. Oh Dad, Poor Dad -- 5. It’s How You Play the Game -- 6. Not What You Know, but Who You Know -- 7. Please Won’t You Be My Neighbor? -- 8. Locked In -- 9. Reframing Race -- 10. Unlocking Lock-In -- Conclusion -- Notes -- index -- About the Author