The Color Factor
The Economics of African-American Well-Being in the Nineteenth-Century South
Despite the many advances that the United States has made in racial equality over the past half century, numerous events within the past several years have proven prejudice to be alive and well in modern-day America. In one such example, Governor Nikki Haley of South Carolina dismissed one of her principal advisors in 2013 when his membership in the ultra-conservative Council of Conservative Citizens (CCC) came to light. According to the Southern Poverty Law Center, in 2001 the CCC website included a message that read God is the one who divided mankind into different races.... Mixing the races is rebelliousness against God. This episode revea…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-19-938312-2
- EAN: 9780199383122
- Produktnummer: 18392184
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
- Seitenangabe: 336 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 30'247 KB
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Howard Bodenhorn is Professor of Economics at Clemson University and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He has published widely on several issues in economic history, including banking and financial markets, the economics of race and identity, and the economics of crime. He has received several awards and grants from the National Science Foundation, and the Earhart, the Ewing Marion Kauffman, and the John Simon Guggenheim foundations.
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