Contents
Tables and Figures
Contributors
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Beyond Discrimination: Racial Inequality in the Age of Obama / Fredrick C. Harris and Robert C. Lieberman
Part I: The Political Development of Racial Inequality
Chapter 1: The End of "Race" as We Know It? Assessing the "Postracial America" Thesis in the Obama Era / Rodney E. Hero and Morris E. Levy, with Benjamin Radcliff
Chapter 2: The American State as an Agent of Race Equity: The Systemic Limits of Shock and Awe in Domestic Policy / Desmond King
Chapter 3: Racial Inequality and Race-Conscious Affirmative Action in College Admissions: A Historical Perspective on Contemporary Prospects and Future Possibilities / Anthony S. Chen and Lisa M. Stulberg
Chapter 4: Racial Inequality in Employment in Postracial America / Dorian T. Warren
Part II: Attitudes and Individual Behavior
Chapter 5: A Measure of Justice: What Policing Racial Bias Research Reveals / Phillip Atiba Goff
Chapter 6: The Social Psychology of Symbolic Firsts: Effects of Barack Obama's Presidency on Student Achievement and Perceptions of Racial Progress in America / Valerie Purdie-Vaughns and Richard P. Eibach
Part III: Politics and the State
Chapter 7: Unhappy Harmony: Accounting for Black Mass Incarceration in a "Postracial" America / Vesla M. Weaver
Chapter 8: The "Stickness" of Race in an Era of Mass Incarceration / Devah Pager
Part IV: Economics and Markets
Chapter 9: The Ghetto Tax: Auto Insurance, Postal Code Profiling, and the Hidden History of Wealth Transfer / Devin Fergus
Chapter 10: Racial Segregation and the Marketing of Health Inequality / Naa Oyo A. Kwate
Index