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Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. Contents vii
  3. Foreword ix
  4. Acknowledgments xi
  5. Introduction 1
  6. Part One: Diversity And Inequality
  7. 1. Durable Inequality 15
  8. 2. Two Visions of the Relationship between Individual and Society: The Bell Curve versus Social Structure and Personality 34
  9. 3. Two Faces of Diversity: Recreating the Stranger Next Door? 52
  10. 4. Gender, Sexuality, and Inequality: When Many Become One, Who Is the One and What Happens to the Others? 70
  11. Part Two: The New Demography Of Durable Inequality
  12. 5. The State of the American Dream: Race and Ethnic Socioeconomic Inequality in the United States, 1970-90 89
  13. 6. Strangers Next Door: Immigrant Groups and Suburbs in Los Angeles and New York 108
  14. 7. Jobless Poverty: A New Form of Social Dislocation in the Inner-City Ghetto 133
  15. 8. Persisting Inequality between Metropolitan and Nonmetropolitan America: Implications for Theory and Policy 151
  16. Part Three: Durable Inequality In American Institutions
  17. Education
  18. 9. Do Historically Black Colleges and Universities Enhance the College Attendance of African American Youths? 171
  19. Military
  20. 10. Overcoming Race:Army Lessons for American Society 189
  21. 11. War's Legacy in Men's Lives 209
  22. Religion
  23. 12. Diversity and Consensus: What Part Does Religion Play? 228
  24. Family
  25. 13. Diversity in American Families 245
  26. Mass Media
  27. 14. Television And Diversity:The Quantum Leap Model 260
  28. Part Four:Afterword
  29. 15. The Reduction of Intergroup Tensions 277
  30. 16. Long Time Passing: Race, Prejudice, and the Reduction of Intergroup Tensions 296
  31. Bibliography 305
  32. Contributors 327
  33. Index 335
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