The Economics of Structural Racism
Stratification Economics and US Labor Markets

A historical economic analysis of US racial disparity across the alternative regimes of structural racism and economic development.

Patrick L. Mason (Author)

9781009290777, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 13 April 2023

388 pages
22.8 x 15.2 x 2.5 cm, 0.58 kg

This extensive and comprehensive book tracks persistent racial disparities in the US across multiple regimes of structural racism. It begins with an examination of the economics of racial identity, mechanisms of stratification, and regimes of structural racism. It analyzes trends in racial inequality in education and changes in family structure since the demise of Jim Crow. The book also examines generational trends in income, wealth, and employment for families and individuals, by race, gender, and national region. It explores economic differences among African Americans, by region, ethnicity, nativity, gender, and racial identity. Finally, the book provides a theoretical analysis of structural racism, productivity, and wages, with a special focus on the role of managers and instrumental discrimination inside the firm. The book concludes with an investigation of instrumental discrimination, hate crimes, the criminal legal system, and the impact of mass incarceration on family structure and economic inequality.

Part I. Foundations: 1. Introduction
2. Racial identity as an economic norm
3. Mechanisms of stratification: insecurities and inequities of capitalist competition
4. Regimes of racial stratification: 1865 – present
Part II. African American Educational Progress and Transformations in Family Structure, 1965 – present: 5. African American educational progress: 1965 – present
6. Transformations in family structure
Part III. African American Income and Wealth, 1965 – present: 7. Family income growth and inequality: 1965 – present
8. Family wealth inequality: pensions, homeownership, and property income
9. Individual wage and employment disparity
10. African American cultural diversity: social identity, ethnicity, and nativity
Part IV. Structural Racism, 1965 – present: 11. Structural racism and persistent wage disparity
12. The Criminal legal system and hate crimes
Part V. Restatement and Discussion: 13. Restatement and discussion
References
Index.

Subject Areas: Ethnic studies [JFSL]