Серия "George Gund Foundation Book in African American Studies"

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...