Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 256
Trim: 6½ x 9½
978-0-7425-4807-7 • Hardback • May 2007 • $129.00 • (£99.00)
978-0-7425-4808-4 • Paperback • May 2007 • $48.00 • (£37.00)
978-0-7425-7949-1 • eBook • May 2007 • $45.50 • (£35.00)
Vincent J. Roscigno is a Professor of Sociology at the Ohio State University. His research focuses on historical and contemporary issues of social stratification, institutions, education and work, and collective mobilization. He is currently co-editor (with Randy Hodson) of the American Sociological Review.
Chapter 1 Race Discrimination in Employment
Chapter 2 Race Attitudes and the Alternative Realities of Workers and Bosses
Chapter 3 Sex Discrimination in Employment
Chapter 4 How Sexual Harassment Happens
Chapter 5 Discrimination in Public and Private Economic Sectors
Chapter 6 Competitive Threat and Isolation at Work
Chapter 7 The Experiences of Black and White, and Low and High Status Women
Chapter 8 Discrimination and African American Men: A Precarious Historical Legacy
Chapter 9 Race and the Process of Housing Discriminatio
Chapter 10 The Contexts of Housing Discrimination
Chapter 11 Housing and Sex Discrimination
Chapter 12 Conclusion
This is a meticulously researched, theoretically compelling, and deeply disturbing account of how sex and race discrimination operate in the everyday lives of people. Based on case data from individuals who filed formal complaints with the Ohio Civil Rights Commission, The Face of Discrimination is a must read for students and scholars interested in understanding the interactional processes that produce and sustain gender and racial inequality.
— Verta Taylor, Professor, University of California at Santa Barbara
The book is written academically but is generally accessible to others; the message is important and well articulated....Recommended.
— Choice Reviews, April 2008
The data alone makes this an important study, but the analyses convincingly illustrate how real people do what needs to be done to create white and male privilege, showing us how social closure processes actually work in employment and housing. Roscigno demonstrates that interactional discrimination has far reaching consequences for reproducing racial and gender inequality in today's world. This book should be required reading not only in social science classes, but in every MBA program in the country.
— Barbara Risman, University of Illinois at Chicago, executive officer of the Council on Contemporary Families