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Summary: Provocative Book
Review: Cherry's book challenges both the left and right to rethink our approaches to reducing racial and gender disparities. Cherry attempts to outline a middle ground, one that recognizes the role of government without demonizing market forces. Although his views are not always in harmony with my own, I applaud his attempt to reinvigorate the discussion. The book is readily accessible to a nontechnical audience and will make provocative
reading for introductory undergraduate courses and a general readership.
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Summary: Accessible, informative and well-documented - excellent.
Review: It's a pity the title suggests a self-help book on tacking the job market. _Who Gets the Good Jobs_ is a very readable, well-documented discussion of what we all know--that discrimination in employment is alive and well, and that neither conservative denial nor orthodox leftist ideologies, will remedy it.
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Summary: Well researched, thoughtful and important
Review: Robert Cherry has written an impressive and important book on the history and status of economic disparities and policies related to race and gender in the United States. Drawing on years of study, particularly of African American economic progress, Cherry (p. xiii) has "struggled to find compatibility between [his] head and [his] heart," tackling tough, controversial questions forthrightly. In this book Cherry has set himself to assess the source and extent of the economic progress of people of color and white women in the U.S., the effectiveness of particular policies to assist that progress, the role of a capitalist economy in exploiting or eroding disparities and--courageously--to confront the orthodoxies of both large camps on these questions, including those of his own earlier days.I recommend this book highly--for students and for social scientists both in and outside the field. Bob Cherry is a strong scholar, and he's written an important, accessible, substantial book.
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