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American Nightmare: Why Inequality Persists
American Nightmare Why Inequality Persists Author:Clarice Stasz America is the land of economic opportunity, where individual effort marries the free marketplace to produce success. This is the American dream and, says Clarice Stasz, it is fulfilled for only a minority of workers, usually white males. For the majority, which includes most women, blacks, and white men of certain ethnic groups, the... more » dream remains a fantasy. The author develops a perspective on work and discrimination that is at odds with popular beliefs and evaluates public policy in light of the reality. She calls for new approaches that will examine the American social calls for new approaches that will examine the American social structure as it is and proposes ways to deal with it.
Clarice Stasz teaches at Sonoma State University in California and is the author of "Female and Male." She edited "Sexism: Scientific Debates" ad has contributed to "Case Studies in Discrimination" and the journals "Media and Methods" and "Modern Fiction Studies." Dr. Stasz earned a Ph.D. in sociology from Rutgers.
"A well-written critique of the neoconservatism that now dominates the Reagan era. . . . [The American Nightmare] documents the continuing pervasiveness of race and sex discrimination in the US, and the effects of discrimination seen in the sharply higher unemployment rates for women and nonwhites compared to white males. . . . This book is an important contribution to a rethinking of current myths about affirmative action and so-called 'reverse discrimination.'" ~ Choice« less