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Title: The New African American Inequality

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Publication Year: 2008

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Abstract: The interpretation of twentieth-century African American inequality remains fraught with controversy. Have barriers to African American economic progress crumbled or remained stubbornly resistant to fundamental change? Has the story been similar for women and men? What mechanisms have fostered or retarded change? Those questions matter not only because they cut so close to the heart of twentieth-century American history but also because they bear on important public-policy choices in the present. In this article, we rely primarily on census data assembled in the University of Minnesota’s Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS) to examine the controversial topic of black inequality. Our answer to the questions the data pose does not support either the optimistic or the pessimistic version of African American history. But it does not come down in an illusory middle, either . . .

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Authors: Katz, Michael B.; Fader, Jamie J.; Stern, Mark J.

Editors: Ram A. Cnaan, Melissa E. Dichter and Jeffrey Draine

Pages: 354-390

Volume Title: A Century of Social Work and Social Welfare at Penn

Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

Publisher Location: Philadelphia, United States of America

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Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Gender, Labor Force and Occupational Structure, Race and Ethnicity

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