Contents
Contributors
Acknowledgments
Part I: Introduction: Foundations of a Prismatic Metropolis
Chapter 1: Analyzing Inequality in Los Angeles // Lawrence D. Bobo, Melvin L. Oliver, James H. Johnson Jr., and Abel Valenzuela Jr.
Chapter 2: A Demographic Portrait of Los Angeles County, 1970 to 1990 // David M. Grant
Chapter 3: Racial Attitudes in a Prismatic Metropolis: Mapping Identity, Stereotypes, Competition, and Views on Affirmative Action // Lawrence D. Bobo and Devon Johnson
Part II: Opportunities Divided: Race, Space, and Gender in Los Angeles
Chapter 4: Residential Segregation in Los Angeles // Camille Zubrinsky Charles
Chapter 5: Racial Differences in Labor Force Participation and Long-Term Joblessness amoung Less-Educated Men // Michael J. Lichter and Melvin L. Oliver
Chapter 6: Latino Earnings Inequality: Immigrant and Native-Born Differences // Abel Valenzuela Jr. and Elizabeth Gonzalez
Chapter 7: A Protected Niche? Immigrant Ethnic Economies and Labor Market Segmentation // Tarry Hum
Chapter 8: African American Males in Decline: A Los Angeles Case Study // James H. Johnson Jr., Walter C. Farrell Jr., and Jennifer A. Stoloff
Chapter 9: Child Care as Poverty Policy: The Effect of Child Care on Work and Family Poverty // Julie E. Press
Chapter 10: Bridging Social Networks and Female Labor Force Participation in a Multiethnic Metropolis // James H. Johnson Jr., Elisa Jayne Bienenstock, Walter C. Farrell Jr., and Jennifer L. Glanville
Chapter 11: Search, Discrimination, and the Travel to Work // Michael A. Stoll
Chapter 12: Spatial Mismatch or More of a Mishmash? Multiple Jeopardy and the Journey to Work // Julie E. Press
Part III: Understanding Processes of Discrimination
Chapter 13: Racial Attitudes and Power in the Workplace: Do the Haves Differ from the Have-nots? // Lawrence D. Bobo, Devon Johnson, and Susan A. Suh
Chapter 14: Surveying Racial Discrimination: Analyses from a Multiethnic Labor Market // Lawrence D. Bobo and Susan A. Suh
Chapter 15: Women's Perceptions of Workplace Discrimination: Impacts of Racial Group, Gender, and Class // Susan A. Suh
Index