Part I: Introduction -- America's Racial Realities -- Do Current Race and Ethnicity Concepts Reflect a Changing America? -- Intergroup Dialogue: Race Still Matters -- Part II: Economics -- Wealth Building in Communities of Color -- Recent Employment Trends Among Black Men and Their Policy Implicatio
Race and Social Problems
โ Scribed by Ralph Bangs;Larry E. Davis
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag New York
- Year
- 2016
- Tongue
- English
- Category
- Library
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โฆ Table of Contents
Part I: Introduction.- America's Racial Realities.- Do Current Race and Ethnicity Concepts Reflect a Changing America?.- Intergroup Dialogue: Race Still Matters.- Part II: Economics.- Wealth Building in Communities of Color.- Recent Employment Trends Among Black Men and Their Policy Implications.- Challenging the Conventional Understanding of American Poverty.- Part III: Education.- Interventions to Address Racial/Ethnic Disparities in School Discipline: Can Systems Reform be Race-Neutral?.- Exploring, Understanding and Closing the Achievement Gap(s): Efforts from Harlem to Homewood.- High School Quality and Race Differences in College Achievement.- Part IV: Special Topics: Family Matters: Strengthening the Fabric of Minority Families.- Aging and Health in Mexican Americans: Selected Findings from the Hispanic EPESE.- Racial Disproportionality in Prison.- Resetting Race.- Part V: Health: Disparities in Health Care for Minorities: An Ecological Perspective.- Considering the Role of Social Determinants of Health in Black-White Breast Cancer Disparities.- Understanding and Addressing Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Obesity.- Mental Health Indicators for African American Males.
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