Reproducing Racism: How Everyday Choices Lock In White Advantage

Contents

>> vii Contents Acknowledgments ix Introduction  . The More Things Change, the More They Stay the Same  Some (Incomplete and Unsatisfying) Explanations for Persistent Inequality . Cheating at the Starting Line  How White Racial Cartels Gained an Early Unfair Advantage during Jim Crow . Racial Cartels in Action  An In-Depth Look at Historical Racial Cartels in Housing and Politics . Oh Dad, Poor Dad  How Whites’ Early Unfair Advantage in Wealth Became Self-Reinforcing over Time . It’s How You Play the Game  How Whites Created Institutional Rules That Favored Them over Time . Not What You Know, but Who You Know  How Social Networks Reproduce Early Advantage viii << Contents . Please Won’t You Be My Neighbor?  How Neighborhood Effects Reproduce Racial Segregation . Locked In  How White Advantage May Now Have Become Hard-Wired into the System . Reframing Race  How the Lock-In Model Helps Us to Think in New Ways about Racial Inequality . Unlocking Lock-In  Some General Observations (and One or Two Suggestions) on Dismantling Lock-In Conclusion  Notes  Index  About the Author  ...