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- catalog abstract ""In The Color of Opportunity, Haya Stier and Marta Tienda ask: How do race and ethnicity limit opportunity in post-Civil Rights Chicago? In the 1960s, Chicago was a focal point of civil rights activities. But in the 1980s it served as the laboratory for ideas about the emergence and social consequences of concentrated urban poverty; many experts, such as William J. Wilson, downplayed the significance of race as a cause of concentrated poverty, emphasizing instead structural causes that called for change in employment policy. But in this new study, Stier and Tienda ask about the pervasive poverty, unemployment, and reliance on welfare among blacks and Hispanics in Chicago, wondering if and how the inner city poor differ from the poor in general." "The culmination of a six-year collaboration analyzing the Urban Poverty and Family Life Survey of Chicago, The Color of Opportunity is the first major work to compare Chicago's inner city minorities with national populations of similar race and ethnicity from a life course perspective. The authors find that blacks, whites, Mexicans, and Puerto Ricans living in poor neighborhoods differ in their experiences with early material deprivation and the lifetime disadvantages that accumulate - but they do not differ much from the urban poor in their family formation, welfare participation, or labor force attachment. Stier and Tienda find little evidence for ghetto-specific behavior, but they document the myriad ways color still restricts economic opportunity."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b11988761.
- catalog contributor b11988762.
- catalog coverage "Chicago (Ill.) Economic conditions.".
- catalog coverage "Chicago (Ill.) Social conditions.".
- catalog created "c2001.".
- catalog date "2001".
- catalog date "c2001.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2001.".
- catalog description ""In The Color of Opportunity, Haya Stier and Marta Tienda ask: How do race and ethnicity limit opportunity in post-Civil Rights Chicago? In the 1960s, Chicago was a focal point of civil rights activities. But in the 1980s it served as the laboratory for ideas about the emergence and social consequences of concentrated urban poverty; many experts, such as William J. Wilson, downplayed the significance of race as a cause of concentrated poverty, emphasizing instead structural causes that called for change in employment policy. But in this new study, Stier and Tienda ask about the pervasive poverty, unemployment, and reliance on welfare among blacks and Hispanics in Chicago, wondering if and how the inner city poor differ from the poor in general."".
- catalog description ""The culmination of a six-year collaboration analyzing the Urban Poverty and Family Life Survey of Chicago, The Color of Opportunity is the first major work to compare Chicago's inner city minorities with national populations of similar race and ethnicity from a life course perspective. The authors find that blacks, whites, Mexicans, and Puerto Ricans living in poor neighborhoods differ in their experiences with early material deprivation and the lifetime disadvantages that accumulate - but they do not differ much from the urban poor in their family formation, welfare participation, or labor force attachment. Stier and Tienda find little evidence for ghetto-specific behavior, but they document the myriad ways color still restricts economic opportunity."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [275]-282) and index.".
- catalog description "Poor people, poor places -- Chicago : economic and social transformation of an urban metropolis -- The study of population -- Family matters : turning points from orientation to procreation -- Doles and safety nets : public assistance and income support -- Makin' a living : employment opportunity in the inner city -- The contours of opportunity.".
- catalog extent "xxiii, 289 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0226774201 (alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "2001".
- catalog issued "c2001.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Chicago : University of Chicago Press,".
- catalog spatial "Chicago (Ill.) Economic conditions.".
- catalog spatial "Chicago (Ill.) Social conditions.".
- catalog spatial "Illinois Chicago".
- catalog spatial "Illinois Chicago.".
- catalog subject "305.569/09773/11 21".
- catalog subject "Families Illinois Chicago.".
- catalog subject "HV4046.C36 S5 2001".
- catalog subject "Minorities Illinois Chicago Social conditions.".
- catalog subject "Poor Illinois Chicago.".
- catalog subject "Poverty Psychological aspects.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Poor people, poor places -- Chicago : economic and social transformation of an urban metropolis -- The study of population -- Family matters : turning points from orientation to procreation -- Doles and safety nets : public assistance and income support -- Makin' a living : employment opportunity in the inner city -- The contours of opportunity.".
- catalog title "The color of opportunity : pathways to family, welfare, and work / Haya Stier and Marta Tienda.".
- catalog type "text".