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"Massey does an excellent job of explaining how humans psychological make up creates institutions they continue a cycle of inequality. He starts with the birth of civilization (invention of agriculture) but then jumps to the 20th century and shows how even when government is at is best trying to minimize inequality with programs like Social Security there are still groups who are left out intentionally."
"Another triumph of synthesis and sociological analysis from Douglas S. Massey, who is quickly becoming one of my heroes. In this book, he examines the ways that race, class, and gender play into the stratification of American society.
One of the main insights I drew from the book is that the main categories addressed in diversity workshops really do correspond to structural mechanisms in society that disadvantage some and favor others--and that these mechanisms have a definite attitudinal component, so working to make people aware of stereotypes and prejudices is a worthy project. The structural mechanisms that perpetuate inequality along categorical lines are broad in their workings, and thus the situations of individuals are always more complicated than the overall trends; but on a broad governmental level, policies can be designed either to mitigate or exacerbate these systems of inequality. Under Republicans since the 1970s, policies are generally designed to exacerbate inequality and favor the rich.
Here are some other facts and arguments, coming more directly from the book, that I found noteworthy:
1) African Americans were intentionally excluded from the benefits of the New Deal
2) the South left the Democratic Party when the Civil Rights Act came along and Johnson's Great Society programs included blacks in the welfare state, breaking apart the New Deal consensus that had reduced inequality from around 1930 to the late 1960s.
3) Rising inequality is reliably associated with Republican administrations, and it is also associated with political polarization.
4) The current mass incarceration of African American males started with Nixon's War on Crime, which was a reaction to Johnson's War on Poverty that changed the focus of the criminal justice system from rehabilitation to punishment and preyed on racial fears to further pry apart the New Deal consensus.
5) That incarceration is also significantly responsible for the higher rate of AIDS infection about African Americans.
6) The 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA) backfired by encouraging Mexican migrant workers to stay in the US and, once here, bring in family members either legally or illegally. Thus a itinerant work force (itself part of an exploitative system) was turned into a permanent and largely disenfranchised work force.
7) The feminist revolution has generally worked to the benefit of upper class women but to the detriment of working class women.
8) Ronald Reagan's changes to the tax code dramatically increased the take-home pay of the wealthy, modestly increased that of the affluent, and actually lowered that of the poor.
9) Before taxes, America's income inequality is roughly the same as other industrialized countries; after taxes, our income inequality is the greatest in the world.
These are just some things that hit me particularly forcefully. The book is full of fascinating insights and stunning in its scope.
"this is not a soc text. it is oriented to general audiences and shows how we cognitively construct categories of inequality from some deep psychological place that we then socially structure through systems that favor our in-group. depressing but compelling."
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