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About this book
In Just Who Loses? Samuel Roundfield Lucas continues his penetrating and comprehensive assessment of sex and race discrimination in the United States that he began in Theorizing Discrimination in an Era of Contested Prejudice.
This new volume demonstrates that the idea of discrimination being a zero-sum game is a fallacy. If discrimination costs women, men do not necessarily reap the gains. Likewise, if discrimination costs blacks, non-blacks do not reap the gains. Lucas examines the legal adjudication of discrimination, as well as wider public debates about policy on the issue, to prove how discrimination actually operates.
He uses analytic methods to show that across the socioeconomic lifecycle—including special education placement, unemployment, occupational attainment, earnings, poverty, and even mortality—both targets and non-targets of discrimination "lose."
In Just Who Loses? Lucas proposes the construction of a broad-based coalition to combat the pervasive discrimination that affects social relations and law in the United States.
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Table of contents
- Contents
- List of Tables and Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Evidently, Too
- 1. Effects of Discrimination in the United States
- 2. Biological Explanations of Gender and Racial Inequality in the United States
- 3. Socialization and Cultural Difference Explanations of Race and Gender Inequality in the United States
- 4. The Comparative Measurement of Expected Exposure to Discrimination
- 5. Education and Discrimination
- 6. Opportunity to Work and Discrimination
- 7. Job Quality and Discrimination
- 8. Poverty, Earnings, and Discrimination
- 9. Mortality and Discrimination
- 10. Just Who Loses?
- References
- Index