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- The Economics of Structural Racism
- Cambridge Studies in Stratification Economics: Economics and Social Identity
- The Economics of Structural Racism
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Part I Foundations
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Racial Identity As an Economic Norm
- 3 Mechanisms of Stratification
- 4 Regimes of Racial Stratification
- Part II African American Educational Progress and Transformations in Family Structure, 1965–Present
- Part III African American Income and Wealth, 1965–Present
- Part IV Structural Racism, 1965–Present
- Part V Restatement and Discussion
- References
- Index
4 - Regimes of Racial Stratification
1865–Present
from Part I - Foundations
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 06 April 2023
- The Economics of Structural Racism
- Cambridge Studies in Stratification Economics: Economics and Social Identity
- The Economics of Structural Racism
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Part I Foundations
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Racial Identity As an Economic Norm
- 3 Mechanisms of Stratification
- 4 Regimes of Racial Stratification
- Part II African American Educational Progress and Transformations in Family Structure, 1965–Present
- Part III African American Income and Wealth, 1965–Present
- Part IV Structural Racism, 1965–Present
- Part V Restatement and Discussion
- References
- Index
Summary
Africans were commodities during chattel capitalism, producing that was appropriated by Whites. This was instrumental discrimination: racially differential treatment because it was profitable. Chattel capitalism was ended by government policy, during the US civil war. White control of Black citizenship was the core element of structural racism during servitude capitalism. Instrumental discrimination included convict leasing, debt peonage, sharecropping, and the chain gang: policies that held down black wages and wealth accumulation, reduced public expenditure on services to the African American community, and public infrastructure that transferred wealth from Blacks to Whites. Lynching was used to enforce racial identity norms. Labor market discrimination increased during the Nadir, even as Blacks closed the skills gap with Whites. Black self-help was also expressed in The Great Migration and Urbanization (1914–1965). African American self-help, President Roosevelt’s New Deal, World War II era changes in federal hiring and the utilization of Black troops, and President Johnson’s Great Society gave rise to racialized managerial capitalism. Thereafter, exclusion is expressed as differential socioeconomic opportunities due to racial wealth disparity and identity norms governing access to resources, especially managerial power, along with relatively greater injustice in the criminal legal system and greater exposure to hate crimes.
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- The Economics of Structural RacismStratification Economics and US Labor Markets, pp. 60 - 110Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023