Books in Progress
The Luckocracy: How Working Class and Middle Class College Graduates Receive Equal Pay
How do students with unequal resources receive jobs that pay equal amounts? Despite that middle-class students graduate from college with more money, connections, and knowledge of the professional labor force than working-class students, the two groups receive the same average pay upon graduating from the same college. By interviewing employers in the mid-tier business sector and the students trying to enter it, The Luckocracy uncovers how students with unequal resources receive equal pay.
How do students with unequal resources receive jobs that pay equal amounts? Despite that middle-class students graduate from college with more money, connections, and knowledge of the professional labor force than working-class students, the two groups receive the same average pay upon graduating from the same college. By interviewing employers in the mid-tier business sector and the students trying to enter it, The Luckocracy uncovers how students with unequal resources receive equal pay.
Judgment Calls: Why White Americans Disagree About What’s Racist and Sexist
With Betsy Leondar-Wright
Recently, Robert Aaron Long walked into three massage parlors and killed eight people. Six of the victims were Asian women. Is Robert Aaron Long racist? Sexist?
Many Americans think the answer is clear. But whatever your answer, about half the country disagrees with you.
Judgment Calls: Why White Americans Disagree about What's Racist and Sexist offers the first explanation of how white Americans decide which incidents are “ist.” Focusing on a range of incidents, the book shows that whites use different definitions and approaches to evaluate whether racism or sexism occurred. Racism and sexism then operate like optical illusions: what is apparent to some white people is difficult for others to see.
With Betsy Leondar-Wright
Recently, Robert Aaron Long walked into three massage parlors and killed eight people. Six of the victims were Asian women. Is Robert Aaron Long racist? Sexist?
Many Americans think the answer is clear. But whatever your answer, about half the country disagrees with you.
Judgment Calls: Why White Americans Disagree about What's Racist and Sexist offers the first explanation of how white Americans decide which incidents are “ist.” Focusing on a range of incidents, the book shows that whites use different definitions and approaches to evaluate whether racism or sexism occurred. Racism and sexism then operate like optical illusions: what is apparent to some white people is difficult for others to see.
