Faded Dreams

By - Carnoy, Martin

Floor - Floor 1

Published - Cambridge University Press, Cambridge [England], 1994

ISBN 10 - 0521470625

ISBN 13 - 9780521470629

Book Status - 1 Qnty Available with us.

Subject - Race relations

Shelf No - 16

Call Number - 330.9730 CAR

Physical Description - x, 286 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes - Includes Index

Book Information

Faded Dreams paints a new and challenging picture of how racial inequality has evolved in America. Martin Carnoy shows that three dominant views of economic differences between blacks and whites--that blacks are individually responsible for not taking advantage of market opportunities, that the world economy has changed in ways that puts blacks at a tremendous disadvantage compared to whites, and that pervasive racism is holding blacks down--do not adequately explain why blacks made such large gains in the past and stopped making them in the 1980s and 1990s. Using a systematic analysis of fifty years of data on income, education, and the variety of jobs that both blacks and whites have held, Faded Dreams offers a powerful argument for active government intervention to improve the education and living conditions of disadvantaged black children.

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