Whitewashing Race: The Myth of a Color-Blind Society (Övrig)
avMichael K. Brown, Martin Carnoy, Elliott Currie, Troy Duster, David B. Oppenheimer, Marjorie M. Shultz
ISBN: 9780520244757 - UTGIVEN: 2005-01-21White Americans, abetted by neo-conservative writers of all hues, generally believe that racial discrimination is a thing of the past and that any racial inequalities that undeniably persist - in wages, family income, access to housing or health care - can be attributed to African Americans' cultura[...]
The Road to Whatever: Middle-Class Culture and the Crisis of Adolescence (Häftad)
avElliott Currie
ISBN: 9780805080001 - UTGIVEN: 2005-12A compassionate investigation of the root causes of the epidemic of drug abuse, violence, and despair among "mainstream" American teenagers. In the past few years, it has become painfully clear that all is not well with the children of middle-class America. Beyond the shootings at Columbine, hardly [...]
Crime and Punishment in America (Häftad)
avElliott Currie
ISBN: 9781250024213 - UTGIVEN: 201304When "Crime and Punishment in America" was first published in 1998, the national incarceration rate had doubled in just over a decade, and California's prison system ranked among the largest in the world. Today, our prison problem has only worsened, and the United States is still the world's most vi[...]
