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More Than Just Race : A Rejoinder
Author(s) -
Wilson William Julius
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
sociological forum
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.937
H-Index - 61
eISSN - 1573-7861
pISSN - 0884-8971
DOI - 10.1111/j.1573-7861.2010.01187.x
Subject(s) - sociology , citation , poverty , white (mutation) , race (biology) , ethnic group , media studies , library science , law , gender studies , anthropology , political science , computer science , biochemistry , chemistry , gene
identical on paper and trained to self-present similarly are simply not received similarly by employers. Her (in)famous finding that employers preferred to call back white men whom they believed had been convicted of crimes more often than black men who had no criminal records indicts the culture of employers, not poor inner-city black men. In both studies, Pager's and my own, black men who embodied desirable mainstream cultural values and played by the rules lost out, and were sometimes rejected in favor of white men who did not play by the rules. Given the rejection outcomes experienced by the nonpoor and well-behaved black men Pager and I studied, I would like Wilson to explain precisely what cultural improvements poor inner-city blacks can make that will assure improved life chances?