How does it feel to be free?: Reflections on black-white economic inequality in the era of "color-blind" law

Review of Black Political Economy

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 9-21

  Williams, Rhonda M ^a   Spriggs, William E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

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EID: 24944530352     PISSN: 00346446     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12114-999-1001-8     Document Type: Article

References (8)

1. Because the critical literature is voluminous, our list is only suggestive of sources available to the interested reader. See William A. Darity, Jr.'s "The Human Capital Approach to Black-White Earnings Inequality: Some Unsettled Questions," Journal of Human Resources 17 (1982): 72-93;
2. Paula England, "The Failure of Human Capital Theory to Explain Occupational Sex Segregation," Journal of Human Resources (Summer, 1982): 358-70;
3. Barbara Bergmann, The Economic Emergence of Women (New York: Basic Books: 1986);
4. Rhonda M. Williams, "Beyond Human Capital: Black Women, Work and Wages," Wellesley College Center for Research on Women, Working Paper No. 183, 1988;
5. Patrick Mason, "The Divide-and-Conquer and Employer/Employee Models of Discrimination: Neoclassical Competition as a Familial Defect," Review of Black Political Economy 20 (Spring 1992);
6. Jeremiah Cotton, "Labor Markets and Racial Inequality," in William A. Darity, Jr. (ed.), Labor Economics: Problems in Analyzing Labor Markets (Boston: Kluwer Academic Press: 1993): 183-208.
7. For an elegant summary of the Marxian and radical tradition's alternatives, see Patrick Mason, "Some Heterodox Models of Inequality in the Market for Labor Power," in Thomas D. Boston (ed.), A Different Vision.-Race and Public Policy-Volume 2 (New York: Routledge, 1997): 350-379.
8. William M. Rodgers III and William E. Spriggs, "What Does the AFQT Really Measure: Race, Wages, Schooling and the AFQT Score, "Review of Black Political Economy 24 (Spring, 1996): 13-46.