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Title: Where Race Matters Most

Citation Type: Journal Article

Publication Year: 2016

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DOI: 10.1177/1536504216662256

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Abstract: Unemployment has become a pronounced and seemingly permanent problem in Black America. Black unemployment has routinely been twice or more as high as White unemployment for the last several decades. This pattern reflects an especially potent form of social exclusion that continues to demand the attention of social scientists and policy makers. It can rightly be called exclusion first because scholars who study unemployment tend to count as unemployed only people who are actively pursuing jobs but are unable to have them, at least momentarily, and second, because unemployment engenders an array of material and non-material deprivations that bear negatively on the quantity and quality of life among those who experience it. There is broad agreement that race is a significant factor in patterns of unemployment but much less agreement about why...

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Authors: Emeka, Amon

Periodical (Full): Contexts: Understanding People in Their Social Worlds

Issue: 3

Volume: 15

Pages: 72-74

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Labor Force and Occupational Structure, Race and Ethnicity

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