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Record Nr.

UNINA9910811302203321

Titolo

Africana social stratification : an interdisciplinary study of economics, policy, and labor / / edited by James L. Conyers Jr

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, Maryland : , : Lexington Books, , 2018

©2018

ISBN

1-4985-3315-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (187 pages) : illustrations

Disciplina

305.5120973

Soggetti

Social stratification - United States

Race discrimination - Economic aspects - United States

African Americans - Economic conditions - 21st century

African Americans - Social conditions - 21st century

Pan-Africanism - Economic aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

Africana sociology and economics: an interdisciplinary analysis of Black social stratification / James L. Conyers Jr -- The emerging field of stratification economics: a unified social science theory of race and inequality? / Greg Price -- Frontstage and backstage racial performances: the contributions of backstage methodological research / Brittany Slatton -- "Girls can't play no ball": the invisibility of Black woman athletes in film / Drew Brown -- Pan-African Belize: a case for praxis / Devon Lee -- Insights regarding Black-White economic inequality from stratification economics / James B. Stewart -- A new era for labor? The promises and perils of the fast food workers strike movement / Marcia Walker McWilliams -- Affirming or dis-confirming America's promise: attitudes about affirmative action among Black Americans and Black immigrants / Anthony D. Greene, LaTasha Chaffin, Maruice Mangum, and Jason Shelton -- An obsolete people? The precarious position of African Americans in the twenty-first-century economy / Robert E. Weems -- New (Pan)-Africanism or neoliberal globalization? introducing Nigeria's Afri-capitalism and South Africa's



Ubuntu business / Kiki Odezie.