Blacks and Other Racial Minorities: The Significance of Color in Inequality

The major thesis of this paper is that the lower socioeconomic status of Blacks compared to Asians, Hispanics, and Native Americans is due primarily to greater racial' discrimination against Blacks in housing. A critical result of this housing discrimination is reduced employment opportunities. Discrimination by Whites against the four racial/ethnic minority groups occurs along a continuum. Asians experience the least housing discrimination and as a consequence have greater employment opportunities. The level of discrimination increases from Asian to Hispanic[1] to Native American to Black.The effect of such discrimination in housing is manifest in the varying degrees of minority group residential segregation and suburbanization. The differential patterns of residential segregation and suburbanization are related to the educational and employment opportunities available. These differential opportunities result in differential levels of income, education, and occupation

Detroit Race Riots, Racial Conflicts, and Efforts to Bridge the Racial Divide

Intro -- Contents -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Chapter 1. Historical Causes and Consequences of the 1967 Civil Disorder: White Racism, Black Rebellion, and Changing Race Relations in the Post-Civil Disorder Era -- Chapter 2. Conflict between the Black Community and White Police: Before and after the 1967 Civil Disorder -- Chapter 3. Racial Conflict over School Desegregation -- Chapter 4. Racial Conflict over Employment Discrimination -- Chapter 5. The Emergence of Black Political Power after 1967: Impact of the Civil Disorders on Race Relations in Metropolitan Detroit -- Chapter 6. City and Suburban Conflict over Residential Sharing of Neighborhoods -- Chapter 7. The Declining Auto Industry and Anti-Asian Racism: The Murder of Vincent Chin -- Chapter 8. African American and Middle Eastern American Relations after 1967 -- Chapter 9. Old Minority and New Minority: Black- Latino Relations in a Predominantly Black City -- Chapter 10. Economic Restructuring, Black Deprivation, and the Problem of Drugs and Crime -- Chapter 11. Measuring the Racial Divides in Metropolitan Detroit -- Chapter 12. Interracial Cooperation and Bridge Building in the Postriot Era -- Chapter 13. Alternative Futures for Residents of Detroit -- Appendix. Method of Computation of the Index of Dissimilarity -- References -- IndexDescription based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries

The African Diaspora in the United States and Canada at the Dawn of the 21st Century

Terry-Ann Jones is a contributing author, “Race, Place, and Social Mobility of Jamaicans in Toronto, Canada , pp. 81-90. Book description: It has been approximately four centuries since the first African set foot in North America, and it is impossible for any text to capture the complete Black experience on the continent. Yet, as the 21st century begins, the persistent legacy of Black inequality and the winds of dramatic change are inseparable parts of the current African Diaspora in the United States and Canada. It is an onerous task to embrace both dimensions in a single text, especially given the two very different places. Despite the challenges these differences pose, it is worthwhile to explore the common experiences and problems shared by these two neighbors. In addition to providing a better understanding of Black experiences for other scholars, we hope that our collective effort will contribute to a dialogue among scholars and, in some modest way, contribute to the informed and difficult decisions of policymakers of both countries.https://digitalcommons.fairfield.edu/sociologyandanthropology-books/1021/thumbnail.jp