| Description |
xiv, 415 pages : illustrations, charts ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Three Black histories / Thomas Sowell -- "Free persons of Color" -- Emancipated slaves and their descendants -- West Indian immigrants -- Chinese Americans and Japanese Americans / William Petersen -- Immigration from China and Japan -- Social mobility -- Social pathology -- The future -- European immigrant groups / Alice Kessler-Harris, Virginia Yans-McLaughlin -- Occupational mobility -- Factors in intergroup mobility -- Ethnic income variations : magnitudes and explanations / Eric Hanushek -- Models and data -- Preliminary results -- Some conclusions -- Discrimination in the academic marketplace / Richard B. Freeman -- Minority faculty in a changing academic job market -- Relative incomes of Black faculty -- Employment patterns and hiring standards -- Changing status of other minority faculty -- Race and I.Q. reconsidered / Thomas Sowell -- Levels of mental test performance -- Patterns of mental test performance -- Sibling I.Q. correlations among ethnic groups / Leon J. Kamin -- |
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Statistical data -- American Indians -- Black Americans -- Chinese Americans -- Filipino Americans -- German Americans -- Irish Americans -- Italian Americans -- Japanese Americans -- Jewish Americans -- Mexican Americans -- Polish Americans -- Puerto Ricans -- West Indians. |
| Form |
Also issued online. |
| Subject |
Minorities -- United States.
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United States -- Race relations.
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| Added Author |
Sowell, Thomas, 1930-
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Collins, Lynn D.
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| ISBN |
0877662118 |
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9780877662112 |
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