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Getting to the Roots of School Segregation : The Challenges of Housing Remedies in Northern School Desegregation Litigation
Nave, Erin C. - 2008
The critical relationship between racially identifiable neighborhoods in northern cities and school segregation has … obstacles, evidence of residential segregation has still historically played a significant strategic role. This essay highlights … limited, housing remedy. As the isolation and re-segregation of urban school districts in northern cities continues, it is …
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Executing Racial Justice
Kysel, Ian M.; Sinha, G. Alex - 2023
The United States has failed to eliminate racial discrimination in the decades since ratifying the international human rights treaty that prohibits it. To its credit, the Biden Administration has attempted to center the fight for racial equity in the work of the executive branch. But President...
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Racial inequality in the U.S. unemployment insurance system
Skandalis, Daphné; Marinescu, Ioana Elena; Massenkoff, … - 2022
While unemployment insurance (UI) could help attenuate racial income disparities in the U.S., Black unemployed workers seem to receive less UI benefits than White ones. To understand why, we analyze administrative data from random audits on UI claims in all U.S. states. We first document a large...
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Do Black Mayors Improve Black Employment Outcomes? Evidence from Large U.S. Cities
Nye, John V. - 2013
To what extent do politicians reward voters who are members of their own ethnic or racial group? Using data from large cities in the United States, we study how black employment outcomes are affected by changes in the race of the cities' mayors between 1971 and 2003. We find that black...
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Black and white in the Southern States : a study of the race problem in the United States from a South African point of view
Evans, Maurice Smethurst - 1915
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Race and income distribution : evidence from the USA, Brazil and South Africa
Gradín, Carlos - In: Review of development economics 18 (2014) 1, pp. 73-92
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Private pressure for social change in South Africa : the impact of the Sullivan Principles
Bernasek, Alexandra - In: Review of social economy : publication of the … 55 (1997) 2, pp. 172-193
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The racial wealth gap in South Africa and the United States
Chelwa, Grieve; Maboshe, Mashekwa; Hamilton, Darrick - In: Review of political economy 36 (2024) 2, pp. 423-440
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Commentary on "The racial wealth gap in South Africa and the United States" by Chelwa, Maboshe and Hamilton
Chong, Kimberly - In: Review of political economy 36 (2024) 2, pp. 441-443
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Racial Conflict and Protest in South Africa and the United States
Olzak, Susan - 2022
Our analysis of thousands of racial confrontations and protests in South Africa and the United States provides support for the hypothesis that some forms of state-sponsored repression fuel racial unrest. In the United States, our results indicate that the number of arrests by police at prior...
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