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9780801437199

A Nation Divided

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  • ISBN13:

    9780801437199

  • ISBN10:

    0801437199

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 1999-09-01
  • Publisher: Cornell Univ Pr

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Table of Contents

Foreword ix
Philip E. Lewis
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction 1(14)
Henry A. Walker
Phylis Moen
Donna Dempster-McClain
PART ONE: DIVERSITY AND INEQUALITY
Durable Inequality
15(19)
Charles Tilly
Two Visions of the Relationship between Individual and Society: The Bell Curve versus Social Structure and Personality
34(18)
Melvin L. Kohn
Two Faces of Diversity: Recreating the Stranger Next Door?
52(18)
Henry A. Walker
Gender, Sexuality, and Inequality: When Many Become One, Who Is the One and What Happens to the Others?
70(19)
Sandra Lipsitz Bem
PART TWO:THE NEW DEMOGRAPHY OF DURABLE INEQUALITY
The State of the American Dream: Race and Ethnic Socioeconomic Inequality in the United States, 1970--90
89(19)
Charles Hirschman
C. Matthew Snipp
Strangers Next Door:Immigrant Groups and Suburbs in Los Angeles and New York
108(25)
Richard Alba
John Logan
Wenquan Zhang
Brian J. Stults
Jobless Poverty: A New Form of Social Dislocation in the Inner-City Ghetto
133(18)
William Julius Wilson
Persisting Inequality between Metropolitan and Nonmetropolitan America: Implications for Theory and Policy
151(20)
David L. Brown
Marlene A. Lee
PART THREE:DURABLE INEQUALITY IN AMERICAN INSTITUTIONS
EDUCATION
Do Historically Black Colleges and Universities Enhance the College Attendance of African Youths?
171(18)
Ronald G. Ehrenberg
Donna S. Rothstein
Robert B. Olsen
MILITARY
Overcoming Race: Army Lessons for American Society
189(20)
Charles Moskos
John Sibley Butler
War's Legacy in Men's Lives
209(19)
Glen H. Elder, Jr.
Christopher Chan
RELIGION
Diversity and Consensus: What Part Does Religion Play?
228(17)
J. Milton Yinger
FAMILY
Diversity in American Families
245(15)
Judith Treas
MASS MEDIA
Television and Diversity: The Quantum Leap Model
260(17)
James Lowell Gibbs, Jr.
PART FOUR:AFTERWORD
The Reduction of Intergroup Tensions
277(19)
Robin M. Williams, Jr.
Peter I. Rose
Long Time Passing: Race, Prejudice, and the Reduction of Intergroup Tensions
296(9)
Peter I. Rose
Bibliography 305(22)
Contributors 327(8)
Index 335

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