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# Race and the Invisible Hand: How White Networks Exclude Black Men from Blue-Collar Jobs

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    Right on, Dr. Sistagirl!
  

*by J***O on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on August 17, 2004*

Since so many conservatives think that racism no longer exists, the market will cure all evils, and blacks do poorly because of individual rather than social failures, Dr. Royster puts these ideas to the test.  She interviews 25 white men and 25 black men who studied the same vocational courses at the same high school to see if they did just as well in the marketplace.  Though the black men get just as good grades and attend classes just as much, their individual initiative does not explain why their white counterparts consistently found jobs easier, were paid more, worked in fields in which they prepared, and were just generally better off.So many people nowadays feel that racism is so nebulous in the post-civil rights era that surely it must not exist.  Dr. Royster explodes this idea and gives American racism a real face.  In this study, white employers would forgive white males with criminal backgrounds but condemn black men in the same situation.  White teachers gave black males verbal support but they only went out of their way to find actual jobs for white, male students.  White males had tons of contacts who could find them jobs, no questions asked; while black men were consistently asked to prove their skills and proceed through bureaucracy.  White male job applicants met white employers in predominantly-white parks, golf courses, churches, and many other places where few black males would have access.  White employers would rather tell white applicants "You didn't get hired due to affirmative action" rather than "You were far from the most qualified person."  The only successful black in this study said he has to constantly grin and bow and that white co-workers purposely used racist epithets hoping to make him explode and get fired.  Though white males unanimously agreed that "who you know" gets you into doors, they never once realize that they know more well-off peopole than black men.  In addition, though white males consistently fared better than their black counterparts, white employers would continually imply that they must give preferential treatment to them to counteract affirmative action policies.This book is well-written and sophisticated, though I think lay readers will be able to understand it generally.  This book doesn't become overly descriptive and fall into simple narrative.  The first individual interviewee discussed isn't brought up until page 66 of this 200-paged book.Dr. Royster stated that she originally intended to interview black and white females as well, but didn't due to time constraints and a lack of an interviewing pool.  Thus, this is men's studies by default.  Still, since the trades mentioned here are predominantly male, this exclusion makes sense.  In fact, Dr. Royster suggests that black males have limited contacts because they can only go to similarly-classed black women, rather than the powerful white male mentors that young white males had.  This was a fascinating gender politic.Dr. Royster describes herself as "a very, light-skinned African American."  Hence, white subjects revealed things to her that she is sure they wouldn't have revealed to a phenotypically black researcher.  This undercover interviewing is fascinating, but lead to truthful and accurate results.Though a new scholar, Dr. Royster critiques the most famous living black sociologist, Dr. W.J. Wilson, yet he even has to admit that her research is excellent.  (See the back cover of the book.)I wasn't expecting this book to be a sociological study.  I thought it would be a history of racism in labor movements and unions.  Still, I was not displeased by the results.  I am a better person for having found and read this text.  Big applause to Dr. Royster.

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    The pages are like new
  

*by K***E on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 5, 2014*

No pencil markings, no highlight markings, just a couple of bent pages and bent cover but its not the end of the world. Would recommend this seller to anyone/

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    Boring book. I would not recommend.
  

*by J***B on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on November 21, 2022*

I should have read the reviews. Boring book. Not for intellectual readers. I would not recommend this book. Could have found a better book to read.

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