WT 276:
Inter-Group Disparity
Winter Term, 2009
Instructor Kellin C. Stanfield
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Office: Harisson Hall, Room 205
Office hours: by appointment
Office Phone: (765) 658-5943
Course Resources
Syllabus
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Course Outline
Presentation Schedule
• Case Study Presenations: Dates and Groups
• Everyone presents their independent research on 1/22.
I. Inter-Group Disparity
Inequality: 1/06
• Sen, Amyarta, “From Income Inequality to Economic Inequality,” Southern Economic Journal 64, October 1997 (e-journal)
Social Sciences, Data, and Race: 1/07
• American Sociological Association, The Importance of Collecting Data and Doing Social Scientific Research on Race. Washington D.C.: American Sociological Association, 2003 (link)
• American Association of Physical Anthropologists, “AAPA Statement on Biological Aspects of Race,” American Journal of Physical Antrhopology 101, 1996 (link)
• Simpson, Ludi, “’Race Statistics: Their’s and Ours,” Radical Statistics 79/80, Summer 2002 (link)
Cross-National Perspectives: 1/08
• Darity, William and Deshpande, Ashwini, “Tracing the Divide,” Eastern Economic Journal 26, Winter 2000 (e-journal)
• Darity, William and Nembhard, Jessica Gordon, “Racial Ethnic Inequality,” American Economic Review 90, May 2000 (e-journal)
II. Economics and Inter-Group Disparity
Economics of Discrimination and Stratification Economics: 1/09
• Marshall, Ray, “The Economics of Racial Discrimination: A Survey,” Journal of Economic Literature 12, 1974 (e-journal)
• Jomo, K. S., “Rethinking Economic Discrimination,” American Economic Review 93, May 2003 (e-journal)
• Darity, William, “Intergroup Inequality: Why Culture is Irrelevant,” The Review of Black Political Economy, Spring 2002 (e-journal)
• Darity, William, “Stratification Economics,” Journal of Economics and Finance 29, Summer 2005 (e-journal)
Measuring Inequality and Discrimination: 1/12
• UNDP, “Technical Note 1,” Human Development Report 2007/2008, United Nations Development Programme, New York: 2007 (link)
• Darity, William, “Intergroup Inequality: Economic Theory and Social Science Evidence,” Southern Economic Journal, April 1998 (e-journal)
III. Case Studies
Australia & New Zealand: 1/13
• Chapple, Simon, “Explaining Patterns of Disparity Between Maori and non-Maori Employment Chances,” Labour Market Bulletin 1999 (link)
• Department of Labour, Maori Labour Market Outcomes: October 2007, New Zealand Department of Labour: 2007 (link)
• Myers, Samuel, “If Not Reconciliation, Then What? Race and the ‘Stolen Generation’ in Australia,” Review of Social Economy 58, September 2000 (e-journal)
Europe: 1/14
• Dancygier, Rafaela, “History of Xenophobia in the United Kingdom,” in Roemer, John, Lee, Woojin, and Van de Sraeten, Karine, Racism, Xenophobia, and Distribution: Multi-Issues in Advanced Democracies, Russell Sage Foundation, New York: 2007 (print reserves)
• Doherty, Daniel, “Immigration: A Challenge to Tolerant Denmark,” in Roemer, John, Lee, Woojin, and Van de Sraeten, Karine, Racism, Xenophobia, and Distribution: Multi-Issues in Advanced Democracies, Russell Sage Foundation, New York: 2007 (print reserves)
• Dancygier, Rafaela, “Immigration and Political Institutionalization of Xenophobia in France,” in Roemer, John, Lee, Woojin, and Van de Sraeten, Karine, Racism, Xenophobia, and Distribution: Multi-Issues in Advanced Democracies, Russell Sage Foundation, New York: 2007 (print reserves)
Asia: India: 1/16
• Deshpande, Ashwini, “Recasting Economic Inequality,” Review of Social Economy 58, September 2000 (e-journal)
• Deshpande, Ashwini, “Caste at Birth? Redefining Disparity in India,” Review of Development Economics 5, February 2001 (e-journal)
• O’Neill, Tom, “Untouchable,” National Geographic 203, June 2003 (e-journal)
• Meenakshi, JV, Ray, Ranjan, and Gupta, Souvik, “Estimates of Poverty for SC, ST and Female-Headed Households,” Economic and Political Weekly 35, July 29 – August 4 2000 (e-journal)
Asia: Malaysia, Singapore, and Japan: 1/19
• Jamaludin, Faridah, “Malaysia’s New Economic Policy,” in Darity, William and Deshpande, Ashwini, eds., Bounaries of Clan and Color: Transnational Comparisons of Inter-Group Disparity, Routledge, New York: 2003 (print reserves)
• Moore, Quinn R., “Multiracialism and Meritocracy: Singapore’s Approach to Race and Inequality,” Review of Social Economy 58, September 2000 (e-journal)
• Meerman, Jacob, “The Mobility of Japan’s Burakumin,” in Darity, William and Deshpande, Ashwini, eds., Bounaries of Clan and Color: Transnational Comparisons of Inter-Group Disparity, Routledge, New York: 2003 (print reserves)
Americas: Latin America: 1/20
• Lovell, Peggy, “Race, Gender and Regional Labor Market Inequalities in Brazil,” Review of Social Economy 58, September 2000 (e-journal)
• Cruz-Janzen, Marta, “Out of the Closet: Racial Amnesia, Avoidance, and Denial – Racism among Puerto Ricans,” Race, Gender, and Class 10, July 2003 (e-journal)
• Vinson III, Ben, “Fading From Memory: Historiographical Reflections on the Afro-Mexican Presence,” Review of Black Political Economy 33, Summer 2005 (e-journal)
• Brysk, Alison and Wise, Carol, “Liberalization and Ethnic Conflict in Latin America,” Studies in Comparative International Development 32, Summer 1997 (e-journal)
• McEwan, Patrick J., “The Indigenous Test Score Gap in Bolivia and Chile,” Economic Development and Cultural Change 53, October 2004 (e-journal)
Americas: USA and Canada: 1/21
• Engel, Stephen, “History of Racial Politics in the United States,” in Roemer, John, Lee, Woojin, and Van de Sraeten, Karine, Racism, Xenophobia, and Distribution: Multi-Issues in Advanced Democracies, Russell Sage Foundation, New York: 2007 (print reserves)
• Mason, Patrick, “Understanding Recent Empirical Evidence on Race and Labor Market Outcomes in the USA,” Review of Social Economy 58, September 2000 (e-journal)
• Telles, Edward E. and Ortiz, Vilma, “The Historical Context,” in Generations of Exclusion: Mexican Americans, Assimilation, and Race, Russell Sage Foundation, New York: 2008 (print reserves)
• Darity, William, Dietrich, Jason, and Guilkey, David, “Persistent Advantage or Disadvantage?: Evidence in Support of the International Drag Hypothesis,” American Journal of Economics and Sociology 60, April 2001 (e-journal)
• Stelcner, Morton A., “Earnings Differentials among Ethnic Groups in Canada,” Review of Social Economy 58, September 2000 (e-journal)