Research Catalog

Title

Racial and ethnic economic inequality : an international perspective / Samuel L. Myers, Jr. and Bruce P. Corrie, editors.

Author

World Conference on Remedies to Racial and Ethnic Inequality (1st : 1996 : Roy Wilkins Center for Human Relations and Social Justice)

Publication

New York : Lang, [2006], ©2006.

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Additional Authors

• Myers, Samuel L.
• Corrie, Bruce P.

Description

ix, 216 pages; 24 cm.

Series Statement

American university studies. Series XVI, Economics, 0740-2150 ; v. 10

Uniform Title

American university studies. Series XVI, Economics ; v. 10.

Subject

• Racism > Congresses
• Ethnocentrism > Congresses
• Discrimination > Congresses
• Social justice > Congresses

Note

• Papers, some rev., presented at the First World Conference on Remedies to Racial and Ethnic Inequality, held May 16-19, 1996, Roy Wilkins Center for Human Relations and Social Justice.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Ch. 1. Introduction / Bruce P. Corrie and Samuel L. Myers, Jr. -- Ch. 2. Just a link in the chain : global racism and the concept of "blackness" in Russia / Pinar Batur -- Ch. 3. Local global racism in Latin America / Hernan Vera -- Ch. 4. A case of culturalization : Haitians in the Dominican Republic / Yanick St. Jean -- Ch. 5. Ethnic discrimination : a critical survey of economic explanations / Jomo K. S. -- Ch. 6. Affirmative action by the numbers : why and how the psychology of affirmative action matters / Rupert W. Nacoste -- Ch. 7. Affirmative action and international law : a test case / Frank Deale -- Ch. 8. International human rights instruments and racial discrimination in the United States / Walter W. Stafford -- Ch. 9. An indigenous Australian university / Eleanor Bourke and Colin Bourke -- Ch. 10. Unequal opportunities in education and labour market in India / Autar S. Dhesi -- Ch. 11. Programs for empowerment and reducing equality : a long way to go for untouchables / Sukhadeo Thorat -- Ch. 12. Racial and ethnic inequality - is political mobilization the remedy? : the case of dalits and tribals in Kerala, India / Bruce P. Corrie -- Ch. 13. Remedying racial and ethnic inequality in New Zealand : reparative and distributive policies of social justice / Marilyn E. Lashley -- Ch. 14. A call for public policy review : the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act and Native American development / Gary C. Anders -- Ch. 15. Economic security for all : a necessary condition for eliminating racial economic inequality / Sheila D. Collins -- Ch. 16. If not affirmative action, then what? / Samuel L. Myers, Jr.

ISBN

082045656X (hardcover : alk. paper)

LCCN

• 2003011712
• 9780820456560

OCLC

• OCM52312447
• SCSB-5265572

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries