Beyond Discrimination: Racial Inequality in a Post-Racist Era

Contents

Contents Tables and Figures vii Contributorsxi Acknowledgmentsxiii Introduction  Beyond Discrimination: Racial Inequality in the Age of Obama 1 Fredrick C. Harris and Robert C. Lieberman part i  the political development of racial inequality 37 Chapter 1 The End of “Race” as We Know It? Assessing the “Postracial America” Thesis in the Obama Era 39 Rodney E. Hero and Morris E. Levy, with Benjamin Radcliff Chapter 2 The American State as an Agent of Race Equity: The Systemic Limits of Shock and Awe in Domestic Policy 73 Desmond King Chapter 3 Racial Inequality and Race-Conscious Affirmative Action in College Admissions: A Historical Perspective on Contemporary Prospects and Future Possibilities 105 Anthony S. Chen and Lisa M. Stulberg Chapter 4 Racial Inequality in Employment in Postracial America 135 Dorian T. Warren vi      Contents part ii  attitudes and individual behavior 155 Chapter 5 A Measure of Justice: What Policing Racial Bias Research Reveals 157 Phillip Atiba Goff Chapter 6 The Social Psychology of Symbolic Firsts: Effects of Barack Obama’s Presidency on Student Achievement and Perceptions of Racial Progress in America 186 Valerie Purdie-Vaughns and Richard P . Eibach part iii politics and the state 213 Chapter 7  Unhappy Harmony: Accounting for Black Mass Incarceration in a “Postracial” America 215 Vesla M. Weaver Chapter 8 The “Stickiness” of Race in an Era of Mass Incarceration 257 Devah Pager part iv economics and markets 275 Chapter 9 The Ghetto Tax: Auto Insurance, Postal Code Profiling, and the Hidden History of Wealth Transfer277 Devin Fergus Chapter 10 Racial Segregation and the Marketing of Health Inequality 317 Naa Oyo A. Kwate Index349 ...