Race Neutrality (eBook)

Rationalizing Remedies to Racial Inequality

Inhyuck Ha, Samuel L. Myers (Autoren)

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2018
220 Seiten
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-0-7391-8562-9 (ISBN)

Infos

Using illustrations from research on racial inequality in varied domains from public procurement and contracting to mortgage lending to child maltreatment to competitive swimming, Race Neutrality: Rationalizing Remedies to Racial Inequality argues that race neutrality—while desirable on its face—often fails to do what it is intended to do.

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There are wide racial disparities in virtually every sphere of economic life. African American workers earn less than whites. They are more likely to be denied loans than whites. Minority-owned businesses are less likely to win lucrative bids on state and federal contracts than are white male owned businesses. Black children are more likely than whites to be reported to child protective services for neglect or abuse. There are even huge disparities in downing rates between blacks and whites. What to do about these disparities? There is a fundamental disagreement about the appropriate remedies to these varied indicators of racial inequality. Part of the disagreement stems from differences in public perceptions about the underlying causes of the inequality. But, another form of disagreement relates to the opposition to the remedy of choice during much of the 1970s and 1980s: Affirmative Action. Race conscious remedies -- like affirmative action policies in hiring, college admissions, and business contracting -- suffer from legal and constitutional challenges, compounded by hostility from the majority of Americans. The alternative race-neutral remedies attempt to address racial disparities without directly targeting benefits exclusively to racial minority group members. In doing so, race-neutral remedies putatively help minorities without hurting majority group members.The authors of Race Neutrality: Rationalizing Remedies to Racial Inequality make the case that policy analysts should shift from a focus on whether a remedy is race-conscious or not to a focus on the underlying problem that the alternative remedies is attempting to resolve. This type of rethinking of the problem of racial inequality will reveal that sometimes race-neutral remedies hold great promise in reducing disparities. Often, however, race-neutral remedies fail to do what they are intended to do. The authors challenge the reader to think about why race-neutral remedieswhile desireable on their facemight fail to resolve protracted and persistent patterns of racial inequality in market and non-market contexts.

Autor

Inhyuck Ha is professor at Western Carolina UniversitySamuel L. Myers Jr is professor of human relations and social justice at University of Minnesota

Inhalt

Chapter 1: The ProblemChapter 2: Problem Structuring, Race and Policy AnalysisChapter 3: The Curious Case of Competitive Swimming and Racial Disparities in DrowningChapter 4: The Problem of Racial Disparities in Child MaltreatmentChapter 5: Public Procurement and Contracting: The Largest Affirmative Action Program of All Chapter 6: Markets, Market Failure, and Black-White Earnings Inequality: Race Neutrality and the Rising Tide Lifts All Ships HypothesisChapter 7: Deterrence as a Race-Neutral Strategy: The Case of Racial Disparities in Lending Chapter 8: Compliance as a Race-Neutral Strategy: The Case of Reverse Discrimination LitigationChapter 9: Alternatives to Race-Neutrality

Produkt-Details

• Zusatzinfo: 40 Illustrations including: - 17 Tables; - 23 Graphs.
• Verlagsort: Lanham
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Steuern / Steuerrecht
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Wirtschaftspolitik
• Schlagworte: Affirmative Action • Child maltreatment disparities • Color-Blind vs. Race-Conscious Remedies • Deterrence and Enforcement • Disadvantaged business enterprises • Market Failure & Inequality • Minnesota Paradox & Swimming • Mortgage Lending Disparities • Policy Analysis & Race • Public Procurement & Contracting
• ISBN-10: 0-7391-8562-4 / 0739185624
• ISBN-13: 978-0-7391-8562-9 / 9780739185629