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- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- 1. Introduction
- The Civil Rights Movement
- The Optimistic View
- The Pessimistic View
- The Polarization Thesis
- A Demographic Approach
- Relative versus Absolute Change
- 2. Education, Employment, and Occupation
- Educational Attainment
- Integration of Public Schools
- Racial Residential Segregation
- Employment and Unemployment
- Employment Opportunities for the Young
- Occupation
- Conclusions
- 3. Personal Income and Earnings
- The Incomes of Individuals
- The Earnings of Workers
- Conclusions
- 4. Who Benefited?
- Educational Attainment
- Differences within Occupations
- Differences within Industrial Sectors
- Regional Differences
- Earnings and Age
- Have Any Blacks Caught Up in Earnings?
- Conclusions
- 5. The Welfare of Families and Individuals
- Changing Living Arrangements
- Family Income
- Income Inequality
- Poverty
- Conclusions
- 6. Class Differences in the Black Community
- Educational Attainment
- Occupational Prestige
- Family Income
- Dropping Out of the Labor Force
- Polarization by Family Type
- Subjective Social Class Identification
- Hereditary Social Status
- Conclusions
- 7. A Scorecard on Black Progress
- Indicators Showing Improvement
- Indicators Showing No Improvement
- Mixed Indicators
- Views of Racial Change
- What Will Happen in the Future?
- Appendix: Describing Racial Differences in Earnings
- Notes
- References
- Index