books about: inequalities

books about: inequalities

books:

Inequalities

The Trouble with Diversity: How We Learned to Love Identity and Ignore Inequality

Walter Benn Michaels

Holt Paperbacks, 2007

I wouldn't agree with his solutions, but he gets the statement of the problem exactly right
Short and cogent argument that the current "neoliberal" emphasis on diversity (of race, culture, language, or religion) devalues economic equality and real political progress. "Celebrating diversity . . .is now our way of accepting inequality." Michaels doesn't ...

The Social Construction of Difference and Inequality: Race, Class, Gender and Sexuality

Tracy E. Ore

McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages, 2008

College book, messages for everyone
I was required to read this book for one of my graduate classes and enjoyed the format and topics. The variety of authors and perspectives is interesting, and even though it talks down to the read in some of the section introductions, the overrall message becomes ...

Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools

Jonathan Kozol

Harper Perennial, 1992

a very important book
First of all, I realize this book is slightly dated, in that it was published 17 years ago. The unfortunate thing is that I don't believe much has changed since Kozol wrote it... if there have been major changes, he wouldn't have found it necessary to write his second ...

Social Inequality: Forms, Causes, and Consequences (6th Edition)
Charles E. Hurst

Allyn & Bacon, 2006

Social Inequality: Forms, Causes, and Consequences, Fourth Edition conveys to readers a complex and up-to-date view of social inequality in the United States in a way that informs, draws them in, and encourages them to look at the inequality surrounding them. The book is based on the assumptions that social inequality is multidimensional and ...

Falling Behind: How Rising Inequality Harms the Middle Class (The Aaron Wildavsky Forum for Public Policy)

Robert H. Frank

University of California Press, 2007

Working Harder for Average
The dictum "context is everything" is certainly true when it comes to assessing the value of material goods. In Falling Behind, economist Robert H. Frank shows that what we consider "average" or "good enough" in a home or car is determined by context: what are ...

The Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit (Princeton Studies in American ...

Thomas J. Sugrue

Princeton University Press, 2005

Excellent history of urban decline
This was required reading for a graduate course in American history. Thomas J. Sugrue attempts to prove that resistance to the civil rights movement had much deeper roots than the white backlash of the 1960s and 1970s. The author contends that resistance to the civil ...

When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America

Ira Katznelson

W. W. Norton, 2006

LBJ was the one who really freed the slaves
Just finished an outstanding book by Ira Katznelson on the untold history of racial inequality in America. Those who oppose affirmative action should get it and see who has really benefitted from The New Deal, the Fair Deal, Social Security and the GI Bill after WWII. ...

Racism Without Racists: Color-Blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in the United States

Eduardo Bonilla-Silva

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2006

If open to understanding the minority perspective
This book may annoy, irritate, and even infuriate some, but if any of these emotions arise, you might ask yourself "why do I feel so defensive?"...and I promise, you will gather a bit of enlightment. The book portrays the perspective of minority peoples in a way that ...

Equations Inequalities and Vics GMAT Preparation Guide (Manhattan GMAT Preparation Guides)

Manhattan GMAT Prep

MG Prep, Inc., 2007

A good refresher
Quantitative section on the GMAT can be a little tricky, even if you were pretty good at Math in your high school or in college. Why? Because the skills tested on the GMAT are different than the one you acquired in high school or college. I am an engineering major ...

Infections and Inequalities: The Modern Plagues

Paul Farmer

University of California Press, 2001

Where are the Virchows of global public health?
The context of epidemics is important. What happens to the poor people who have drug resistant tuberculosis? Market mechanisms do not serve the interest of global health equity. The cost-efectiveness argument is weak. Poverty limits freedom of choice. AIDS education ...

The Global Bell Curve: Race, IQ, and Inequality Worldwide

Richard Lynn

Washington Summit Publishers, 2008

Another landmark book by Lynn
For the last 25 years of IQ-research, the books by Richard Lynn are the only ones which are making a substantial difference. Around 1980 the last but one step forward had been made by Arthur Jensen, Hans Jürgen Eysenck, Helmar Frank, Siegfried Lehrl and myself in ...

Punishment and Inequality in America

Bruce Western

Russell Sage Foundation Publications, 2007

A Prison Employee
This is a book the policy makers and students and everyone in-between would be well served by reading. It can be a little repetitive at times, but the author makes his points well. One of the strengths of this book is that through painstaking but necessary detail in ...

The Hidden Cost of Being African American: How Wealth Perpetuates Inequality

Thomas M. Shapiro

Oxford University Press, USA, 2005

Every American needs to read this book!
I agree with Mr. Shapiro. He took my understanding of how tax policy and wealth transfers have widened the gap to a new level. His arguments are highly persuasive. However, I have an alternative view of why the value of homes in AA communities do not appreciate as ...

How The Rich Are Destroying the Earth (Foreword by Greg Palast)

Hervé Kempf

Chelsea Green Publishing, 2008

Old Environmental Issues Updated
Amazingly accurate assessment of an old subject brought back to the forefront by this author. We don't have to search far and long to see that the examples of the ongoing environmental catastrophes given are happening now, right under our noses and presented in plain ...

The Cauchy-Schwarz Master Class: An Introduction to the Art of Mathematical Inequalities (Maa Problem Books ...

J. Michael Steele

Cambridge University Press, 2004

Erudite and stimulating problem book in inequalities
The classic work in this field is Hardy, Littlewood, and Polya's "Inequalities", but as much as I admire these authors for their other works, I have never gotten much out of their inequality book. Steele's book is different: extremely clear, erudite, and thorough, it ...