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Article: Persistent Disparity: Race and Economic Inequality in the United States since 1945.(Review)
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- Industrial and Labor Relations Review
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- January 1, 2000
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Persistent Disparity: Race and Economic Inequality in the United States since 1945. By William A. Darity, Jr., and Samuel L. Myers, Jr. Northampton, Mass.: Edward Elgar, 1998. 191 pp. ISBN 185898-658-3, $70.00 (cloth); 1-85898-665-6, $25.00 (paper).
One interpretation of persistent racial inequality in family incomes between blacks and whites in post-Jim Crow America is that blacks suffer from two "supply side" problems that reduce the earning potential of black families relative to that of white families:
1. Blacks have, on average, lower educational attainment (as measured by the number of years of schooling completed as well as the percentage of ...