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Ethnicity, social mobility and public policy : comparing the USA and UK / edited by Glenn C. Loury, Tariq Modood, and Steven M. Teles.
- Title
- Ethnicity, social mobility and public policy : comparing the USA and UK / edited by Glenn C. Loury, Tariq Modood, and Steven M. Teles.
- Publication
- Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2005.
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- Description
- xvi, 643 p. : ill.; 23 cm.
- Summary
- This major comparative study of the social mobility of ethnic minorities in the US and UK argues that social mobility must be understood as a complex and multi-dimensional phenomenon, incorporating the wealth and income of groups, but also their political power and social recognition.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Ruling an empire, governing a multinational state: the impact of Britain's historical legacy on the ethno-racial regime / Mary J. Hickman -- American diversity and the 2000 census / Nathan Glazer -- Four modes of ethno-somatic stratification: the experience of blacks in Europe and the Americas / Orlando Patterson -- Ethnicity as social capital: community-based institutions and embedded networks of social relations / Min Zhou -- Intergeneration mobility and racial inequality in education and earnings / Linda Datcher Loury -- Social integration and social mobility: spatial segregation and intermarriage of the Caribbean population in Britain / Ceri Peach -- Ghettos and the transmission of ethnic capital / David M. Cutler [and others] -- Family formation in multicultural Britain: diversity and changes / Richard Berthoud -- Educational progress for African-Americans and Latinos in the United States from the 1950s to the 1990s: the interaction of ancestry and class / Michael Hout --^
- The educational attainments of ethnic minorities in Britain / Tariq Modood -- Why America's black-white school achievement gap persists / Ronald F. Ferguson -- Networks and niches: the continuing significance of ethnic connections / Roger Waldinger -- Nonwhite origins, Anglo destinations: immigrants in the USA and Britain / Suzanne Model -- Social mobility of ethnic minorities / Anthony Heath, Dorren McMahon -- Ethnic minorities, employment, self-employment, and social mobility in postwar Britain / Vaughan Robinson, Rina Valeny -- Ethnicity and political mobilization in Britain / Tariq Modood -- Political institutions and minority mobility in the USA / Peter Skerry -- Race, state, and policy: the development of employment discrimination policy in the USA and Britain / Robert Lieberman -- Regime effects: ethnicity, social mobility, and public policy in the USA and Britain / Steven M. Teles, Robert Mickey, Fawzia S. Ahmed --^
- Race, inequality and justice in the USA: some social-philosophic reflections / Glenn C. Loury -- Achieving racial equality / Bhikhu Parekh.
- ISBN
- 0521823099
- 0521530016 (pbk.)
- LCCN
- ^^2004051887
- 9780521823098
- 9780521530019
- OCLC
- 55625287
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library