Ethnicity, Social Mobility, and Public Policy: Comparing the USA and UKGlenn C. Loury, Tariq Modood, Steven M. Teles Cambridge University Press, 2005 M05 12 This major comparative study of the social mobility of ethnic minorities in the US and UK argues that social mobility must be understood as a complex and multi-dimensional phenomenon, incorporating the wealth and income of groups, but also their political power and social recognition. Written by leading sociologists, economists, political scientists, geographers, and philosophers in both countries, the volume addresses issues as diverse as education, work and employment, residential concentration, political mobilisation, public policy and social networks, while drawing larger lessons about the meaning of race and inequality in the two countries. While finding that there are important similarities in the experience of ethnic, and especially immigrant, groups in the two countries, the volume also concludes that the differences between the US and UK, especially in the case of American blacks, are equally important. |
Contenido
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communitybased institutions | 131 |
Intergenerational mobility and racial inequality | 160 |
segregation and intermarriage of the Caribbean | 178 |
Ghettos and the transmission of ethnic capital | 204 |
diversity | 222 |
Educational progress for AfricanAmericans and Latinos | 262 |
The educational attainments of ethnic minorities | 288 |
Social mobility of ethnic minorities | 393 |
Ethnic minorities employment selfemployment | 414 |
Ethnicity and political mobilization in Britain | 457 |
the development of employment | 498 |
ethnicity social mobility and public | 522 |
some | 573 |
Achieving racial equality | 602 |
Author index | 618 |
Why Americas blackwhite school achievement | 309 |
the continuing significance | 342 |
immigrants in | 363 |
Subject index | 627 |
Términos y frases comunes
achievement affirmative action African African-Americans Afro-Caribbean American analysis ancestry argued Bangladeshis Black Caribbean black-white Britain British-born whites Caribbean women census century Chinatown Chinese class origins coethnics cohort compared cultural disadvantaged discrimination earnings economic effects employers employment equality ethnic and racial ethnic capital ethnic groups ethnic minorities gender ghetto higher Hispanics households identity immigrants important income individuals institutions interaction intergenerational Irish labor market Latinos less levels living London migration minority groups Modood native whites neighborhood networks NSEM occupational outcomes Pakistanis parents patterns percent political population poverty qualifications race race-blind racial and ethnic racism rates salariat scores segregation self-employment significant social capital social class social mobility society socioeconomic South Asian Statistics structure Survey Table tion United University Press urban variables Waldinger West Indian white British workers York
Pasajes populares
Página 26 - No ingenious manufactures amongst them, no arts, no sciences. On the other hand, the most rude and barbarous of the whites, such as the ancient GERMANS, the present TARTARS, have still something eminent about them, in their valour, form of government, or some other particular.
Página 26 - I AM apt to suspect the Negroes to be naturally inferior to the Whites. There scarcely ever was a civilized nation of that complexion, nor even any individual, eminent either in action or speculation. No ingenious manufactures amongst them, no arts, no sciences.
Página 347 - Ethnic ties suffuse an otherwise "bare" relationship with a sense of collective purpose in contrast to the outside. But the utilization of ethnic solidarity in lieu of enforced discipline in the workplace also entails reciprocal obligations. If employers can profit from the willing self-exploitation of fellow immigrants, they are also obliged to reserve for them those supervisory positions that open in their firms, to train them in trade skills, and to support their eventual move into self-employment....
Página 466 - ... came to be mixed with an emphasis on black pride, black autonomy and black nationalism as typified by Malcolm X, so too the same process occurred in the UK (both these inspirational leaders visited Britain). Indeed, it is best to see this development of racial explicitness and positive blackness as part of a wider sociopolitical climate which is not confined to race and culture or non-white minorities. Feminism, gay pride, Quebecois nationalism and the revival of a Scottish identity are some...
Página 145 - Chinese children, from preschool to 12th grade, in their 137 Chinese language classes and over 10 specialty classes (eg, band, choir, piano, cello, violin, T'ai chi, ikebana, dancing, and Chinese painting). The Chinese language classes run from 3:00 to 6:30 PM daily after regular school hours. Students usually spend one hour on regular school homework and two hours on Chinese language or other selected specialties. The school also has English classes for immigrant youth and adult immigrant workers.
Página 305 - Pakistanis, Bangladeshis and Chinese. Additionally, nearly three thousand white people were interviewed, in order to compare the circumstances of the minorities with that of the ethnic majority. Further details on all aspects of the survey are available in Modood et al., 1997.
Página 146 - It is very important to allow youths to express themselves in their own terms without parental pressures. Chinese parents usually have very high expectations of their children. When children find it difficult to meet these expectations and do not have an outlet for their frustration and anxiety, they tend to become alienated and lost on the streets.
Página 28 - Hindostan, a race of men lamentably degenerate and base; retaining but a feeble sense of moral obligation; yet obstinate in their disregard of what they know to be right, governed by malevolent and licentious passions, strongly exemplifying the effects produced on society by a great and general corruption of manners, and sunk in misery by their vices...
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