@article{809209,
      recid = {809209},
      author = {Roithmayr, Daria,},
      title = {Reproducing racism : how everyday choices lock in white  advantage /},
      pages = {1 online resource (195 pages)},
      abstract = {"This book is designed to change the way we think about  racial inequality. Long after the passage of civil rights  laws and now the inauguration of our first black president,  blacks and Latinos possess barely a nickel of wealth for  every dollar that whites have. Why have we made so little  progress? Legal scholar Daria Roithmayr provocatively  argues that racial inequality lives on because white  advantage functions as a powerful self-reinforcing  monopoly, reproducing itself automatically from generation  to generation even in the absence of intentional  discrimination. Drawing on work in antitrust law and a  range of other disciplines, Roithmayr brilliantly compares  the dynamics of white advantage to the unfair tactics of  giants like AT & T and Microsoft. With penetrating insight,  Roithmayr locates the engine of white monopoly in positive  feedback loops that connect the dramatic disparity of Jim  Crow to modern racial gaps in jobs, housing and education.  Wealthy white neighborhoods fund public schools that then  turn out wealthy white neighbors. Whites with lucrative  jobs informally refer their friends, who refer their  friends, and so on. Roithmayr concludes that racial  inequality might now be locked in place, unless  policymakers immediately take drastic steps to dismantle  this oppressive system. Daria Roithmayr is the George T.  and Harriet E. Pfleger Professor of Law at the University  of Southern California Gould School of Law. An  internationally acclaimed legal scholar and activist, she  is one of the country's leading voices on the legal  analysis of structural racial inequality. Prior to joining  USC, Professor Roithmayr advised Senator Edward Kennedy on  the nominations of Clarence Thomas and David Souter, and  taught law at the University of Illinois"--},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/809209},
}