Beyond Discrimination : Racial Inequality in a Post-Racist Era.

Intro -- Contents -- Tables and Figures -- Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Beyond Discrimination: Racial Inequality in the Age of Obama / Fredrick C. Harris and Robert C. Lieberman -- Part I: The Political Development of Racial Inequality -- Chapter 1: The End of "Race" as We Know It? Assessing the "Postracial America" Thesis in the Obama Era / Rodney E. Hero and Morris E. Levy, with Benjamin Radcliff -- Chapter 2: The American State as an Agent of Race Equity: The Systemic Limits of Shock and Awe in Domestic Policy / Desmond King -- Chapter 3: Racial Inequality and Race-Conscious Affirmative Action in College Admissions: A Historical Perspective on Contemporary Prospects and Future Possibilities / Anthony S. Chen and Lisa M. Stulberg -- Chapter 4: Racial Inequality in Employment in Postracial America / Dorian T. Warren -- Part II: Attitudes and Individual Behavior -- Chapter 5: A Measure of Justice: What Policing Racial Bias Research Reveals / Phillip Atiba Goff -- Chapter 6: The Social Psychology of Symbolic Firsts: Effects of Barack Obama's Presidency on Student Achievement and Perceptions of Racial Progress in America / Valerie Purdie-Vaughns and Richard P. Eibach -- Part III: Politics and the State -- Chapter 7: Unhappy Harmony: Accounting for Black Mass Incarceration in a "Postracial" America / Vesla M. Weaver -- Chapter 8: The "Stickness" of Race in an Era of Mass Incarceration / Devah Pager -- Part IV: Economics and Markets -- Chapter 9: The Ghetto Tax: Auto Insurance, Postal Code Profiling, and the Hidden History of Wealth Transfer / Devin Fergus -- Chapter 10: Racial Segregation and the Marketing of Health Inequality / Naa Oyo A. Kwate -- Index.

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