Contents
Contributors
Acknowledgments
Introduction. Understanding Inequality in the Late Twentieth-Century Metropolis: New Perspectives on the Enduring Racial Divide / Alice O'Connor
Chapter 1. Metropolises of the Multi-City Study of Urban Inequality: Social, Economic, Demographic, and Racial Issues in Atlanta, Boston, Detroit, and Los Angeles / Reynolds Farley
Part I. Racial Attitudes
Chapter 2. Stereotyping and Urban Inequality / Lawrence D. Bobo and Michael P. Massagli
Chapter 3. Perceived Group Discrimination and Policy Attitudes: The Sources and Consequences of the Race and Gender Gaps / James R. Kluegel and Lawrence D. Bobo
Part II. Residence, Employment, and the Significance of Space
Chapter 4. Processes of Racial Residential Segregation / Camille Zubrinsky Charles
Chapter 5. Ethnic Residential Segregation and Its Consequences / Franklin D. Wilson and Roger B. Hammer
Chapter 6. Space as a Signal: How Employers Perceive Neighborhoods in Four Metropolitan Labor Markets / Chris Tilly, Philip Moss, Joleen Kirschenman, and Ivy Kennelly
Part III. Inequality and the Structure of Labor Market Opportunity
Chapter 7. Racial and Ethnic Differences in Job Searching in Urban Centers / Luis M. Falcon and Edwin Melendez
Chapter 8. Inequality Through Labor Markets, Firms, and Families: The Intersection of Gender and Race-Ethnicity Across Three Cities / Irene Browne, Leann Tigges, and Julie Press
Chapter 9. Linking the Multi-City Study's Household and Employer Surveys to Test for Race and Gender Effects in Hiring and Wage Setting / Tom Hertz, Chris Tilly, and Michael P. Massagli
Chapter 10. Why Opportunity Isn't Knocking: Racial Inequality and the Demand for Labor / Philip Moss and Chris Tilly
Chapter 11. Are Jobs Available for Disadvantaged Workers in Urban Areas? / Harry J. Holzer and Sheldon Danziger
Index