Spheres of influence

de Douglas S. Massey

The black-white divide has long haunted the United States as a driving force behind social inequality. Yet, the civil rights movement, the increase in immigration, and the restructuring of the economy in favor of the rich over the last several decades have begun to alter to contours of inequality. Spheres of Influence presents a rigorous new study of the intersections of racial and class disparities today. By advancing an ecological model of human development that considers the dynamics of race and class across multiple social spheres, Spheres of Influence sheds important light on the factors that are currently driving inequality today. -- from back cover.