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INEQUALITY AND U.S. SOCIETY

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 June 2010

Reynolds Farley  and
Lawrence D. Bobo
Reynolds Farley*
Affiliation:
Department of Sociology, University of Michigan
Lawrence D. Bobo*
Affiliation:
Department of Sociology and of African and African American Studies, Harvard University
*
Reynolds Farley, Population Studies Center, University of Michigan. 426 Thompson Street, Ann Arbor, MI 48106-1248. E-mail: renf@umich.edu
Professor Lawrence D. Bobo, Department of Sociology, William James Hall, 33 Kirkland Street, Cambridge, MA 02138. E-mail: bobo@wjh.harvard.edu
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Among the advanced industrial nations, the United States has the most unequal distribution of income. Douglas Massey emphasizes that the purchasing power of households in the top five percent of the income distribution rose sharply from the early 1980s to 2000 while the purchasing power of those in the bottom twenty percent of the income distribution remained constant—proving a much larger economic gap between rich and poor households. This book summarizes an extensive array of studies from a variety of disciplines and cogently describes federal policies that promoted income disparity. Many sections of this book provide lucid information about the changing status of women, shifts in racial disparities, and the consequences of immigration from Mexico. It is not, however, a definitive book about inequality in this nation.

Type
State of the Discourse
Information
Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race , Volume 7 , Issue 1 , Spring 2010 , pp. 27 - 34
Copyright
Copyright © W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research 2010

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