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dc.contributor.authorBobo, Lawrence D.
dc.date.accessioned2011-10-18T15:33:56Z
dc.date.issued2010
dc.identifier.citationBobo, Lawrence D. 2010. Inequality and U.S. society. Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race 7(1): 30-34.en_US
dc.identifier.issn1742-058Xen_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:5241394
dc.description.abstractAmong the advanced industrial nations, the United States has the most unequal distribution of income. Douglas Massey emphasizes that the purchasing power of households in the top five percent of the income distribution rose sharply from the early 1980s to 2000 while the purchasing power of those in the bottom twenty percent of the income distribution remained constant—proving a much larger economic gap between rich and poor households. This book summarizes an extensive array of studies from a variety of disciplines and cogently describes federal policies that promoted income disparity. Many sections of this book provide lucid information about the changing status of women, shifts in racial disparities, and the consequences of immigration from Mexico. It is not, however, a definitive book about inequality in this nation.en_US
dc.description.sponsorshipAfrican and African American Studiesen_US
dc.description.sponsorshipSociologyen_US
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.publisherCambridge University Pressen_US
dc.relation.isversionof10.1017/S1742058X10000123en_US
dash.licenseLAA
dc.titleInequality and U.S. Societyen_US
dc.typeCommentary or Reviewen_US
dc.description.versionVersion of Recorden_US
dc.relation.journalDu Bois Review: Social Science Research on Raceen_US
dash.depositing.authorBobo, Lawrence D.
dc.date.available2011-10-18T15:33:56Z
dc.identifier.doi10.1017/S1742058X10000123*
dash.contributor.affiliatedBobo, Lawrence


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