books about: inequality     books:       The Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit (Princeton Studies in American ...14 reviews Thomas J. Sugrue Princeton University Press, 2005 Excellent history of urban decline This was required reading for a graduate course in American history. Thomas J. Sugrue attempts to prove that resistance to the civil rights movement had much deeper roots than the white backlash of the 1960s and 1970s. The author contends that resistance to the civil rights actually emerged as opposition to the New Deal coalition. Urban, anti-liberal, northern whites, as well as corporate ...             When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America13 reviews Ira Katznelson W. W. Norton, 2006 LBJ was the one who really freed the slaves Just finished an outstanding book by Ira Katznelson on the untold history of racial inequality in America. Those who oppose affirmative action should get it and see who has really benefitted from The New Deal, the Fair Deal, Social Security and the GI Bill after WWII. I cannot see how anyone can read this book and not agree with me that Lincoln did not free the slaves. The slaves were not freed ...             Falling Behind: How Rising Inequality Harms the Middle Class (The Aaron Wildavsky Forum for Public Policy)9 reviews Robert H. Frank University of California Press, 2007 Working Harder for Average The dictum "context is everything" is certainly true when it comes to assessing the value of material goods. In Falling Behind, economist Robert H. Frank shows that what we consider "average" or "good enough" in a home or car is determined by context: what are others around us driving? where are they living? Is a `79 Chevy Nova is adequate (or even luxuriant)? The answer to this depends on the ...             Equations, Inequalities, & VIC's (Manhattan GMAT Preparation Guides) Inc Mg Prep MG Prep, Inc., 2008             Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools147 reviews Jonathan Kozol Harper Perennial, 1992 a very important book First of all, I realize this book is slightly dated, in that it was published 17 years ago. The unfortunate thing is that I don't believe much has changed since Kozol wrote it... if there have been major changes, he wouldn't have found it necessary to write his second book, Shame of the Nation, or continue to push for equal-opportunity education like he is still doing today. So, although this ...             Equations Inequalities and Vics GMAT Preparation Guide (Manhattan GMAT Preparation Guides)3 reviews MG Prep, Inc., 2007 A good refresher Quantitative section on the GMAT can be a little tricky, even if you were pretty good at Math in your high school or in college. Why? Because the skills tested on the GMAT are different than the one you acquired in high school or college. I am an engineering major and I took multiple advanced Math courses in my college and yet, I benefited from the Manhattan Review quantitative books. Of ...             Just Enough Carrots (MathStart 1)6 reviews Stuart J. Murphy HarperTrophy, 1997 Math=Fun A wonderful way to introduce the math concepts of comparing amounts.             The Hidden Cost of Being African American: How Wealth Perpetuates Inequality16 reviews Thomas M. Shapiro Oxford University Press, USA, 2005 Every American needs to read this book! I agree with Mr. Shapiro. He took my understanding of how tax policy and wealth transfers have widened the gap to a new level. His arguments are highly persuasive. However, I have an alternative view of why the value of homes in AA communities do not appreciate as fast. There is validity to his view but I believe another reason is because of the way AA's maintain their communities and not ...             Infections and Inequalities: The Modern Plagues8 reviews Paul Farmer University of California Press, 2001 Where are the Virchows of global public health? The context of epidemics is important. What happens to the poor people who have drug resistant tuberculosis? Market mechanisms do not serve the interest of global health equity. The cost-efectiveness argument is weak. Poverty limits freedom of choice. AIDS education falls short. Arguments about limited resources should not prevail. There is a global web of unequal relationships. Structural ...             Racism Without Racists: Color-Blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in the United States9 reviews Eduardo Bonilla-Silva Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2006 If open to understanding the minority perspective This book may annoy, irritate, and even infuriate some, but if any of these emotions arise, you might ask yourself "why do I feel so defensive?"...and I promise, you will gather a bit of enlightment. The book portrays the perspective of minority peoples in a way that will open your eyes. It IS one-sided, but not because the author is a "racist", rather, he feels (it's in his Author's Note) that ...             The Cauchy-Schwarz Master Class: An Introduction to the Art of Mathematical Inequalities (Maa Problem Books ...6 reviews J. Michael Steele Cambridge University Press, 2004 Erudite and stimulating problem book in inequalities The classic work in this field is Hardy, Littlewood, and Polya's "Inequalities", but as much as I admire these authors for their other works, I have never gotten much out of their inequality book. Steele's book is different: extremely clear, erudite, and thorough, it almost makes everything obvious. The subject of inequalities is something of a hodge-podge, and Steele isn't able to change that, ...             The Trouble with Diversity: How We Learned to Love Identity and Ignore Inequality15 reviews Walter Benn Michaels Metropolitan Books, 2006 I wouldn't agree with his solutions, but he gets the statement of the problem exactly right Short and cogent argument that the current "neoliberal" emphasis on diversity (of race, culture, language, or religion) devalues economic equality and real political progress. "Celebrating diversity . . .is now our way of accepting inequality." Michaels doesn't spend much time talking about his suggested solutions to the problems, but based on what he reveals, I would strongly disagree with ...             Punishment and Inequality in America3 reviews Bruce Western Russell Sage Foundation Publications, 2007 A Prison Employee This is a book the policy makers and students and everyone in-between would be well served by reading. It can be a little repetitive at times, but the author makes his points well. One of the strengths of this book is that through painstaking but necessary detail in the analysis, the author shows how incarceration damages the lives of those already affected by inequality. Most authors draw ...             Keeping Track: How Schools Structure Inequality, Second Edition4 reviews Jeannie Oakes Yale University Press, 2005 This book is a must read! When embarking on any study of ability grouping, its root causes and affects on student learning it is important to read this book as well as Oake's other research articles on the subject. As painful as some teachers find changing practices deeply rooted in their own educational experiences this is one that is long overdue and deeply necessary if we are ever going to give all students fair ...             The Inequality of Human Races12 reviews Arthur De Gobineau Howard Fertig, 1999 The Inequality of the Races. _The Inequality of the Human Races_ by Count Arthur de Gobineau is a prophetic work from the nineteenth century which shows the differences between the principle racial groups in terms of their civilizing influence. De Gobineau was a French aristocrat and racialist who had an influence on Richard Wagner and is believed to be a proto-Nazi theorist. Like Nietzsche, de Gobineau took a rather grim ...             The Anatomy of Racial Inequality (The W. E. B. Du Bois Lectures)8 reviews Glenn C. Loury Harvard University Press, 2003 A thoughtful review in a top journal The current issue of the Journal of Economic Literature (December 2002) has a review of Loury's book by Steven Raphael (Goldman School of Public Policy, University of California at Berkely) on pages 1202 - 1214. The JEL is a peer reviewed journal; the article is very thoughtful and well written. Raphael's article ends with the following sentences: "While many may take issue with Loury's analysis ...             Inequality Reexamined (Russell Sage Foundation Books at Harvard University Press)5 reviews Amartya Sen Harvard University Press, 1992 Fantastic- and I don't agree with a word of it, either! I read this book in one sitting, and let me say it is a great book. It is odd so few books are written on such a basic philosophical question as equality, and reading mister Sen is akin to drinking a cold glass of water for a man in a desert of political philosophy. The prose is somewhat weak, the stye is stilted, and that oddly only seems to add to mister Sens' achievement: I never get the ...             Black Wealth / White Wealth: A New Perspective on Racial Inequality 2E2 reviews Routledge, 2006 A Sound Attack on the Middle-Class Myth The arguement that the past thirty years have resulted in a closing of the gap between whites and blacks seems untenable after reading this book. Using wealth instead of income as a measure of success and progress, Oliver and Shapiro argue that glaring inequalities still exist and may actually be growing. Moreover, since creating wealth is far more difficult when one has none to begin, the ...             The Global Bell Curve: Race, IQ, and Inequality Worldwide4 reviews Richard Lynn Washington Summit Publishers, 2008 Another landmark book by Lynn For the last 25 years of IQ-research, the books by Richard Lynn are the only ones which are making a substantial difference. Around 1980 the last but one step forward had been made by Arthur Jensen, Hans Jürgen Eysenck, Helmar Frank, Siegfried Lehrl and myself in discovering the relationship between elementary cognitive tasks and IQ and hence working memory storage capacity. In a world where ...             Pornography: The Production and Consumption of Inequality6 reviews Gail Dines Routledge, 1997 Honesty About Pornography As a student of Gail Dines, this book was part of the required reading. What an eye opener! The book gives an honest account and analyzation of the pornography industry, how it keeps the status of women below men, and the effects of it on the women who are in the industry. It gives valid responses for the arguments that pornograpy is part of free speech and is a great opportunity for women to ...              search for books affirmative, cauchy-schwarz, children, color-blind, consumption, diversity, equations, foundation, inequalities, inequality, infections, introduction, manhattan, mathematical, mathstart, perpetuates, persistence, perspective, pornography, preparation, princeton, production, punishment, reexamined, structure, twentieth, twentieth-century, university, wildavsky, worldwide books:    Kindle - Amazon's New Wireless Reading Device This is the future of book reading. I have used it and love it! randomly chosen book: The Thing About Love Is... we recommend a very important book leave a comment home  impressum - about us