TY  - BOOK
AU  - Caliendo,Stephen M.
TI  - Inequality in America: race, poverty, and fulfilling democracy's promise 
T2  - Dilemmas in american politics
SN  - 9780813344980 (pbk.)
AV  - HN90.S6 C35 2014
U1  - 305.5/120973 23
KW  - Equality
KW  - United States
KW  - Social stratification
KW  - Power (Social sciences)
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom & Security / Civil Rights
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Social Classes
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Social Policy
KW  - fast
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-256) and index; epresentation and the Roots of Inequality -- Income and Wealth -- Housing -- Education -- Crime and Employment -- Health -- Gender -- Affirmative Action -- Conclusion: The Space between Power and Powerlessness
N2  - Takes an in-depth look at individual-level and systemic inequality, focusing in particular on race, poverty, and gender, across a wide range of issues from housing and education to crime, employment and health. Caliendo shows how individual-level prejudice and systemic inequality are interrelated, how individual beliefs and attitudes can affect public opinion and lawmakers' policy solutions and how systemic barriers to advancement as a result of these policies then contribute to individual perceptions, creating a cycle of disadvantage and advantage that can be difficult to break, though not impossible
ER  -