Books in the Cambridge Studies in Stratification Economics: Economics and Social Identity series

This book uses an intersectional approach to analyze the impact the experience race has on Afro-Brazilian political behavior and the race-based vision of politics in the cities of Salvador, Sao Paulo, and Rio de Janeiro. It emphasizes the importance of focusing on how discrimination affects individual and group political behavior.

This book will help students understand the roots and driving forces of racial inequality. It answers such questions as: Why do black families own less than white families? Why does segregation persist decades after Brown v. Board of Education? Why is it harder for black adults to vote?

The King family was a twentieth-century anomaly: a middle-class black family in rural Mississippi. Using family narratives, census data, and employing a socio-ecological lens, this book illustrates how family decisions affected generations across time as they navigated dynamics like segregation, migration, education, religion, and urban living.