From the time of Booker T. Washington to today, and William Julius Wilson, the advice dispensed to young black men has invariably been, «Get a trade.» Deirdre Royster has put this folk wisdom to an empirical test—and, in Race and the Invisible Hand, exposes the subtleties and discrepancies of a workplace that favors the white job-seeker over the black. At the heart of this study is the question: Is there something about young black men that makes them less desirable as workers than their white...
