This paper investigates, theoretically and empirically, differences between blacks and whites in the U.S. concerning the intergenerational transmission of occupational skills and the effects on sons' earnings. The father-son skill correlation is measured by the correlation coefficient (or cosine...

Analysts who have concluded that inequality in life expectancy is increasing have generally focused on life expectancy at age 40 to 50. However, we show that among infants, children, and young adults, mortality has been falling more quickly in poorer areas with the result that inequality in...

At the height of the US civil rights movement in the mid-1960s, foreign-born persons were less than 1 % of the African-American population (Kent, Popul Bull, 62:4, 2007). Today, 16 % of America’s African diaspora workforce consists of first- or second-generation immigrants and 4 % is Hispanic....

Introduction -- Preliminary tools -- Black peoples' territories in Colombia and Ecuador : beyond capitalist accumulation and peripheral economy -- The long history of the palm oil agribusiness and development in Tumaco and San Lorenzo -- Imperialism, unequal exchange and palm oil -- Capital...

Conceptual framework -- Globalization, American economy, and the restructuring of welfare -- A closer look at workfare and black single mother welfare recipients -- The social rights of citizenship, welfare, and the undeserving poor -- Conclusion : resisting the neoliberal workfare state

Introduction: Black women and Madison Avenue -- Women and African-Americans in the advertising profession: an historical overview of the industry and people -- Barbara Gardner Proctor: unconventional advertising pioneer -- Caroline Robinson Jones: tenacious advertising trailblazer -- Joel P....

Introduction / Matthew Hild and Keri Leigh Merritt -- Section 1. The early republic and the Old South -- Origins of the Charleston Mechanic Society: white labor activism and slave competition in Charleston, South Carolina in the early national era / Thomas Brown -- "Vagrant negroes": the...

Forty acres or a savings bank -- Capitalism without capital -- The rise of black banking -- The new deal for white America -- Civil rights dreams, economic nightmares -- The decoy of black capitalism -- The free market confronts black poverty -- The color of money matters

Introduction: The forgotten millionaire -- Taking advantage of opportunities and luck -- Not by bread alone -- Some little touch of the divine -- A Jew steps in -- Conclusion: Forgetting Julius Rosenwald

Introduction: rewriting the rules of racial inequality -- American politics and economic outcomes for African Americans: a brief historical overview -- Stratification economics: a general theory of intergroup inequality -- Creating structural changes: the role of targeted universalism -- The...

The high cost of having hypertension while black in America / Leslie R. Hinkson -- "When treating patients like criminals makes sense" : medical hot spotting, race, and debt / Nadine Ehlers and Shiloh Krupar -- Obamacare and sovereign debt : race, reparations, and the haunting of premature death...

The position of African American men in the US labor market prior to the Great Recession -- African American male unemployment during the Great Recession in comparison to other groups and theoretical considerations -- African American men's decline in labor market status during the Great...