Introduction -- Invisible and visible hands : racial disparity in the labor market -- From school to work in black and white : a case study -- Getting a job, not getting a job : employment divergence begins -- Evaluating market explanations : "the declining significance of race" and "racial...

From the time of Booker T. Washington to today, and William Julius Wilson, the advice dispensed to young black men has invariably been, "Get a trade." Deirdre Royster has put this folk wisdom to an empirical test--and, in Race and the Invisible Hand, exposes the subtleties and discrepancies of a...