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Fiction
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Clap When You Land
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ISBN: 9780062882769Publication Date: May 5, 2020Camino Rios lives for the summers when her father visits her in the Dominican Republic. But this time, on the day when his plane is supposed to land, Camino arrives at the airport to see crowds of crying people…
In New York City, Yahaira Rios is called to the principal’s office, where her mother is waiting to tell her that her father, her hero, has died in a plane crash.
Separated by distance—and Papi’s secrets—the two girls are forced to face a new reality in which their father is dead and their lives are forever altered.
And then, when it seems like they’ve lost everything of their father, they learn of each other. -
The Inheritance Games, Book 1
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ISBN: 9781368053242Publication Date: September 1, 2020Avery Grambs has a plan for a better future: survive high school, win a scholarship, and get out. But her fortunes change in an instant when billionaire Tobias Hawthorne dies and leaves Avery virtually his entire fortune. The catch? Avery has no idea why — or even who Tobias Hawthorne is.
To receive her inheritance, Avery must move into sprawling, secret passage-filled Hawthorne House where every room bears the old man’s touch — and his love of puzzles, riddles, and codes. Unfortunately for Avery, Hawthorne House is also occupied by the family that Tobias Hawthorne just dispossessed. This includes the four Hawthorne grandsons: dangerous, magnetic, brilliant boys who grew up with every expectation that one day, they would inherit billions. Heir apparent Grayson Hawthorne is convinced that Avery must be a conwoman, and he’s determined to take her down. His brother, Jameson, views her as their grandfather’s last hurrah: a twisted riddle, a puzzle to be solved. Caught in a world of wealth and privilege, with danger around every turn, Avery will have to play the game herself just to survive. -
When No One is Watching
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Call Number: PS3603.O427W44 2020ISBN: 9780062982650 (paperback) and 0062982656 (paperback)Publication Date: September 1, 2020Sydney Green is Brooklyn born and raised, but her beloved neighborhood seems to change every time she blinks. Condos are sprouting like weeds, FOR SALE signs are popping up overnight, and the neighbors she’s known all her life are disappearing. To hold onto her community’s past and present, Sydney channels her frustration into a walking tour and finds an unlikely and unwanted assistant in one of the new arrivals to the block—her neighbor Theo.
But Sydney and Theo’s deep dive into history quickly becomes a dizzying descent into paranoia and fear. Their neighbors may not have moved to the suburbs after all, and the push to revitalize the community may be more deadly than advertised.
When does coincidence become conspiracy? Where do people go when gentrification pushes them out? Can Sydney and Theo trust each other—or themselves—long enough to find out before they too disappear? -
The Hunger Games, Book 1 by
Call Number: PZ7.C6837Hun 2008ISBN: 9780439023481 (alk. paper), 0439023483 (alk. paper), 9780439023528, and 0439023521Publication Date: September 14, 2008In the ruins of a place once known as North America lies the nation of Panem, a shining Capitol surrounded by twelve outlying districts. The Capitol is harsh and cruel and keeps the districts in line by forcing them all to send one boy and one girl between the ages of twelve and eighteen to participate in the annual Hunger Games, a fight to the death on live TV. Katniss is a 16-year-old girl living with her mother and younger sister in the poorest district of Panem, the remains of what used be the United States. Long ago the districts waged war on the Capitol and were defeated. As part of the surrender terms, each district agreed to send one boy and one girl to appear in an annual televised event called, "The Hunger Games." The terrain, rules, and level of audience participation may change but one thing is constant: kill or be killed. When Kat's sister is chosen by lottery, Kat steps up to go in her place. Without really meaning to, Katniss becomes a contender. But if she is to win, she will have to start making choices that weigh survival against humanity and life against love. -
You Should See Me in a Crown by
Call Number: PZ7.1.J6286Yo 2020ISBN: 9781338503265 hardcover, 133850326X hardcover, 9780702304323 paperback, and 0702304328 paperbackPublication Date: June 2, 2020Liz Lighty has always believed she's too black, too poor, too awkward to shine in her small, rich, prom-obsessed midwestern town. But it's okay -- Liz has a plan that will get her out of Campbell, Indiana, forever: attend the uber-elite Pennington College, play in their world-famous orchestra, and become a doctor.
But when the financial aid she was counting on unexpectedly falls through, Liz's plans come crashing down . . . until she's reminded of her school's scholarship for prom king and queen. There's nothing Liz wants to do less than endure a gauntlet of social media trolls, catty competitors, and humiliating public events, but despite her devastating fear of the spotlight she's willing to do whatever it takes to get to Pennington.
The only thing that makes it halfway bearable is the new girl in school, Mack. She's smart, funny, and just as much of an outsider as Liz. But Mack is also in the running for queen. Will falling for the competition keep Liz from her dreams . . . or make them come true? -
Crazy Rich Asians, Book 1
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Call Number: PS3611.W36C73 2014ISBN: 0345803787 (Anchor trade paperback), 9780345803788 (Anchor trade paperback), 9780804171588 (paperback), and 0804171580 (paperback)Publication Date: June 11, 2013Kevin Kwan’s New York Times bestselling series reveals the outrageous world of high net worth society with humor and heart.
New Yorker Rachel Chu does not know that her loving boyfriend, Nicholas Young, also happens to be Singapore’s most eligible bachelor and likely heir to a massive fortune. So when she agrees to spend the summer in Nick’s home, her life unexpectedly becomes an obstacle course of old money, new money, nosy relatives, and scheming social climbers. And that’s all before she discovers the true identity of her long-lost father... -
Where the Crawdads Sing
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Call Number: PS3615.W447W48 2018ISBN: 9780735219090 (hardcover), 0735219095 (hardcover), 9781984827616, and 1984827618Publication Date: August 14, 2018For years, rumors of the “Marsh Girl” have haunted Barkley Cove, a quiet town on the North Carolina coast. So in late 1969, when handsome Chase Andrews is found dead, the locals immediately suspect Kya Clark, the so-called Marsh Girl. But Kya is not what they say. Sensitive and intelligent, she has survived for years alone in the marsh that she calls home, finding friends in the gulls and lessons in the sand. Then the time comes when she yearns to be touched and loved. When two young men from town become intrigued by her wild beauty, Kya opens herself to a new life–until the unthinkable happens.
Where the Crawdads Sing is at once an exquisite ode to the natural world, a heartbreaking coming-of-age story, and a surprising tale of possible murder. Owens reminds us that we are forever shaped by the children we once were, and that we are all subject to the beautiful and violent secrets that nature keeps. -
Patron Saints of Nothing by
Call Number: PZ7.1.R5Pat 2019ISBN: 9780525554912 (hardback), 0525554912 (hardback), 9780525554936 (ebook), 9781984814722 (paperback), and 1984814729 (paperback)Publication Date: June 18, 2019Jay Reguero plans to spend the last semester of his senior year playing video games before heading to the University of Michigan in the fall. But when he discovers that his Filipino cousin Jun was murdered as part of President Duterte’s war on drugs, and no one in the family wants to talk about what happened, Jay travels to the Philippines to find out the real story.
Hoping to uncover more about Jun and the events that led to his death, Jay is forced to reckon with the many sides of his cousin before he can face the whole horrible truth — and the part he played in it.
As gripping as it is lyrical, Patron Saints of Nothing is a page-turning portrayal of the struggle to reconcile faith, family, and immigrant identity. -
I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter
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Call Number: PS3619.A517I2 2017ISBN: 9781524700485 (hardcover), 1524700487 (hardcover), 9781524700492 (library binding), and 1524700495 (library binding)Publication Date: October 17, 2017Perfect Mexican daughters do not go away to college. And they do not move out of their parents’ house after high school graduation. Perfect Mexican daughters never abandon their family.
But Julia is not your perfect Mexican daughter. That was Olga’s role.
Then a tragic accident on the busiest street in Chicago leaves Olga dead and Julia left behind to reassemble the shattered pieces of her family. And no one seems to acknowledge that Julia is broken, too. Instead, her mother seems to channel her grief into pointing out every possible way Julia has failed.
But it’s not long before Julia discovers that Olga might not have been as perfect as everyone thought. With the help of her best friend, Lorena, and her first love (first everything), Connor, Julia is determined to find out. Was Olga really what she seemed? Or was there more to her sister’s story? And either way, how can Julia even attempt to live up to a seemingly impossible ideal? -
The Hate U Give, Book 1
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Call Number: PZ7.1.T448Hat 2017ISBN: 9780062498533 (hardback), 0062498533 (hardback), 9783570164822, 3570164829, 9780605974937, and 0605974934Publication Date: February 28, 2017Sixteen-year-old Starr Carter moves between two worlds: the poor neighborhood where she lives and the fancy suburban prep school she attends. The uneasy balance between these worlds is shattered when Starr witnesses the fatal shooting of her childhood best friend Khalil at the hands of a police officer. Khalil was unarmed.
Soon afterward, his death is a national headline. Some are calling him a thug, maybe even a drug dealer and a gangbanger. Protesters are taking to the streets in Khalil’s name. Some cops and the local drug lord try to intimidate Starr and her family. What everyone wants to know is: what really went down that night? And the only person alive who can answer that is Starr.
But what Starr does—or does not—say could upend her community. It could also endanger her life. -
Red at the Bone by
Call Number: PS3573.O64524R43 2019ISBN: 9780525535270 (hardcover) and 0525535276 (hardcover)Publication Date: September 17, 2019Moving forward and backward in time, Jacqueline Woodson’s taut and powerful new novel uncovers the role that history and community have played in the experiences, decisions, and relationships of these families, and in the life of the new child.
As the book opens in 2001, it is the evening of sixteen-year-old Melody’s coming of age ceremony in her grandparents’ Brooklyn brownstone. Watched lovingly by her relatives and friends, making her entrance to the music of Prince, she wears a special custom-made dress. But the event is not without poignancy. Sixteen years earlier, that very dress was measured and sewn for a different wearer: Melody’s mother, for her own ceremony– a celebration that ultimately never took place.
Unfurling the history of Melody’s family – reaching back to the Tulsa race massacre in 1921 – to show how they all arrived at this moment, Woodson considers not just their ambitions and successes but also the costs, the tolls they’ve paid for striving to overcome expectations and escape the pull of history. As it explores sexual desire and identity, ambition, gentrification, education, class and status, and the life-altering facts of parenthood, Red at the Bone most strikingly looks at the ways in which young people must so often make long-lasting decisions about their lives–even before they have begun to figure out who they are and what they want to be.
Nonfiction
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Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor
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Call Number: HC79.P6E89 2018ISBN: 9781250215789Publication Date: August 6, 2019The State of Indiana denies one million applications for healthcare, foodstamps and cash benefits in three years—because a new computer system interprets any mistake as “failure to cooperate.” In Los Angeles, an algorithm calculates the comparative vulnerability of tens of thousands of homeless people in order to prioritize them for an inadequate pool of housing resources. In Pittsburgh, a child welfare agency uses a statistical model to try to predict which children might be future victims of abuse or neglect.
Since the dawn of the digital age, decision-making in finance, employment, politics, health and human services has undergone revolutionary change. Today, automated systems—rather than humans—control which neighborhoods get policed, which families attain needed resources, and who is investigated for fraud. While we all live under this new regime of data, the most invasive and punitive systems are aimed at the poor.
In Automating Inequality, Virginia Eubanks systematically investigates the impacts of data mining, policy algorithms, and predictive risk models on poor and working-class people in America. The book is full of heart-wrenching and eye-opening stories, from a woman in Indiana whose benefits are literally cut off as she lays dying to a family in Pennsylvania in daily fear of losing their daughter because they fit a certain statistical profile. -
Drawing the Vote
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Call Number: JK 1976.J465 2020ISBN: 9781683357339Publication Date: 2020-04-21How the history of American voting rights has shaped the way we vote today. Coinciding with the 2020 US presidential election, Drawing the Vote, an original graphic novel, looks at the history of voting rights in the United States and how it affects the way we vote today. Throughout the book, the author, Tommy Jenkins, identifies events and trends that led to the unprecedented results of the 2016 presidential election that left American political parties more estranged than ever. To balance these complex ideas and statistics, Kati Lacker's original artistic style makes the book accessible for readers of all ages. At a time when many citizens are experiencing challenges and apathy about voting and skepticism concerning our bitterly divided government, Drawing the Vote seeks to offer some explanation for how we got here and how every American can take action to make their vote count. -
How We Can Win: Race, History and Changing the Money Game That's Rigged
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ISBN: 9781250805133Publication Date: January 18, 2022A breakdown of the economic and social injustices facing Black people and other marginalized citizens inspired by political activist Kimberly Jones' viral video, “How Can We Win.”
“So if I played four hundred rounds of Monopoly with you and I had to play and give you every dime that I made, and then for fifty years, every time that I played, if you didn't like what I did, you got to burn it like they did in Tulsa and like they did in Rosewood, how can you win? How can you win?"
When Kimberly Jones declared these words amid the protests spurred by the murder of George Floyd, she gave a history lesson that in just over six minutes captured the economic struggles of Black people in America. Within days the video had been viewed by millions of people around the world, riveted by Jones’s damning—and stunningly succinct—analysis of the enduring disparities Black Americans face.
In How We Can Win, Jones delves into the impacts of systemic racism and reveals how her formative years in Chicago gave birth to a lifelong devotion to justice. Here, in a vital expansion of her declaration, she calls for Reconstruction 2.0, a multilayered plan to reclaim economic and social restitutions—those restitutions promised with emancipation but blocked, again and again, for more than 150 years. And, most of all, Jones delivers strategies for how we can effect change as citizens and allies while nurturing ourselves—the most valuable asset we have—in the fight against a system that is still rigged. -
Fulfillment: Winning and Losing in One-Click America
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Call Number: HC106.84.M334 2021ISBN: 9780374159276Publication Date: March 16, 2021Alec MacGillis’s Fulfillment is not another inside account or exposé of our most conspicuously dominant company. Rather, it is a literary investigation of the America that falls within that company’s growing shadow. As MacGillis shows, Amazon’s sprawling network of delivery hubs, data centers, and corporate campuses epitomizes a land where winner and loser cities and regions are drifting steadily apart, the civic fabric is unraveling, and work has become increasingly rudimentary and isolated.
Ranging across the country, MacGillis tells the stories of those who’ve thrived and struggled to thrive in this rapidly changing environment. In Seattle, high-paid workers in new office towers displace a historic black neighborhood. In suburban Virginia, homeowners try to protect their neighborhood from the environmental impact of a new data center. Meanwhile, in El Paso, small office supply firms seek to weather Amazon’s takeover of government procurement, and in Baltimore a warehouse supplants a fabled steel plant. Fulfillment also shows how Amazon has become a force in Washington, D.C., ushering readers through a revolving door for lobbyists and government contractors and into CEO Jeff Bezos’s lavish Kalorama mansion.
With empathy and breadth, MacGillis demonstrates the hidden human costs of the other inequality—not the growing gap between rich and poor, but the gap between the country’s winning and losing regions. The result is an intimate account of contemporary capitalism: its drive to innovate, its dark, pitiless magic, its remaking of America with every click. -
The Meritocracy Trap: How America's Foundational Myth Feeds Inequality, Dismantles the Middle Class, and Devours the Elite
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Call Number: HT684.M33 2019ISBN: 9780735222014Publication Date: September 10, 2019It is an axiom of American life that advantage should be earned through ability and effort. Even as the country divides itself at every turn, the meritocratic ideal – that social and economic rewards should follow achievement rather than breeding – reigns supreme. Both Democrats and Republicans insistently repeat meritocratic notions. Meritocracy cuts to the heart of who we are. It sustains the American dream.
But what if, both up and down the social ladder, meritocracy is a sham? Today, meritocracy has become exactly what it was conceived to resist: a mechanism for the concentration and dynastic transmission of wealth and privilege across generations. Upward mobility has become a fantasy, and the embattled middle classes are now more likely to sink into the working poor than to rise into the professional elite. At the same time, meritocracy now ensnares even those who manage to claw their way to the top, requiring rich adults to work with crushing intensity, exploiting their expensive educations in order to extract a return. All this is not the result of deviations or retreats from meritocracy but rather stems directly from meritocracy’s successes.
This is the radical argument that Daniel Markovits prosecutes with rare force. Markovits is well placed to expose the sham of meritocracy. Having spent his life at elite universities, he knows from the inside the corrosive system we are trapped within. Markovits also knows that, if we understand that meritocratic inequality produces near-universal harm, we can cure it. When The Meritocracy Trap reveals the inner workings of the meritocratic machine, it also illuminates the first steps outward, towards a new world that might once again afford dignity and prosperity to the American people. -
The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together by
Call Number: E185.8.M38 2021ISBN: 9780525509561,0525509569Publication Date: Feb 16, 2021In the 1950s and 1960s, white officials in communities across the country opted to drain their public swimming pools rather than integrate them. Generations later, America still hasn't recognized that racism as a cost for everyone. But our future can look different. Heather McGhee's specialty is the American economy - and the mystery of why it so often fails the American public. From the 2008 financial crisis to rising student debt to collapsing public infrastructure, she found a common root problem: racism. But not just in the most obvious indignities for people of color. Racism has costs for white people, too. It is the common denominator of our most vexing public problems, the core dysfunction of our democracy and constitutive of the spiritual and moral crisis that grip us all. But how did this happen? And is there a way out? McGhee embarks on a deeply personal journey across the country from Maine to Mississippi to California, tallying what we lose when we buy into the zero-sum paradigm - the idea that progress for some of us must come at the expense of others. Along the way, she meets white people who confide in her about losing their homes, their dreams, and their shots at better jobs to the toxic mix of American racism and greed. This is the story of how public goods in this country - from parks and pools to functioning schools - have become private luxuries; of how unions collapsed, wages stagnated, and inequality increased; and of how this country, unique among the world's advanced economies, has thwarted universal healthcare. But in unlikely places of worship and work, McGhee finds proof of what she calls the Solidarity Dividend: the benefits we gain when people come together across race to accomplish what we simply can't do on our own. The Sum of Us is a brilliant analysis of how we arrived here: divided and self-destructing, materially rich but spiritually starved and vastly unequal. McGhee marshals economic and sociological research to tell an irrefutable story of racism's costs, but at the heart of the book are the humble stories of people yearning to be part of a better America, including white supremacy's collateral victims: white people themselves. With startling empathy, this heartfelt message from a Black woman to a multiracial America leaves us with a new vision for a future in which we finally realize that life can be more than a zero-sum game. -
The Great Divergence
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Call Number: HC110.I5N63 2012ISBN: 9781608196333Publication Date: 2012-04-24For the past three decades, America has steadily become a nation of haves and have-nots. Our incomes are increasingly drastically unequal- the top 1% of Americans collect almost 20% of the nation's income-more than double their share in 1973. We have less equality of income than Venezuela, Kenya, or Yemen. What economics Nobelist Paul Krugman terms 'the Great Divergence' has until now been treated as little more than a talking point, a club to be wielded in ideological battles. But it may be the most important change in this country during our lifetimes - a sharp, fundamental shift in the character of American society, and not at all for the better. The income gap has been blamed on everything from computers to immigration, but its causes and consequences call for a patient, non-partisan exploration. In The Great Divergence, Timothy Noah delivers this urgently needed inquiry, ignoring political rhetoric and drawing on the best work of contemporary researchers to peer beyond conventional wisdom. Noah explains not only how the Great Divergence has come about, but why it threatens American democracy - and most important, how we can begin to reverse it. -
Dirty Work: Essential Jobs and the Hidden Toll of Inequality in America
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Call Number: HM821.P668 2021ISBN: 780374140182, 0374140189Publication Date: Aug 17, 2021A groundbreaking, urgent report from the front lines of "dirty work"—the work that society considers essential but morally compromised
Drone pilots who carry out targeted assassinations. Undocumented immigrants who man the “kill floors” of industrial slaughterhouses. Guards who patrol the wards of the United States’ most violent and abusive prisons. In Dirty Work, Eyal Press offers a paradigm-shifting view of the moral landscape of contemporary America through the stories of people who perform society’s most ethically troubling jobs. As Press shows, we are increasingly shielded and distanced from an array of morally questionable activities that other, less privileged people perform in our name.
The COVID-19 pandemic has drawn unprecedented attention to essential workers, and to the health and safety risks to which workers in prisons and slaughterhouses are exposed. But Dirty Work examines a less familiar set of occupational hazards: psychological and emotional hardships such as stigma, shame, PTSD, and moral injury. These burdens fall disproportionately on low-income workers, undocumented immigrants, women, and people of color.
Illuminating the moving, sometimes harrowing stories of the people doing society’s dirty work, and incisively examining the structures of power and complicity that shape their lives, Press reveals fundamental truths about the moral dimensions of work and the hidden costs of inequality in America. -
Sunbelt Blues: The Failure of American Housing
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ISBN: 9781250804235Publication Date: Oct 26, 2021An eye-opening investigation of America’s rural and suburban housing crisis, told through a searing portrait of precarious living in Disney World's backyard.
Today, a minimum-wage earner can afford a one-bedroom apartment in only 145 out of 3,143 counties in America. One of the very worst places in the United States to look for affordable housing is Osceola County, Florida.
Once the main approach to Disney World, where vacationers found lodging on their way to the Magic Kingdom, the fifteen-mile Route 192 corridor in Osceola has become a site of shocking contrasts. At one end, global investors snatch up foreclosed properties and park their capital in extravagant vacation homes for affluent visitors, eliminating the county’s affordable housing in the process. At the other, underpaid tourist industry workers, displaced families, and disabled and elderly people subsisting on government checks cram themselves into dilapidated, roach-infested motels, or move into tent camps in the woods.
Through visceral, frontline reporting from the motels and encampments dotting central Florida, renowned social analyst Andrew Ross exposes the overlooked housing crisis sweeping America’s suburbs and rural areas, where residents suffer ongoing trauma, poverty, and nihilism. As millions of renters face down evictions and foreclosures in the midst of the COVID-19 recession, Andrew Ross reveals how ineffective government planning, property market speculation, and poverty wages have combined to create this catastrophe. Urgent and incisive, Sunbelt Blues offers original insight into what is quickly becoming a full-blown national emergency. -
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
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Call Number: E185.61.R8185 2017ISBN: 9781631492853, 1631492853, 9781631494536, and 1631494538Publication Date: May 2, 2017Richard Rothstein’s The Color of Law offers “the most forceful argument ever published on how federal, state, and local governments gave rise to and reinforced neighborhood segregation” (William Julius Wilson). Exploding the myth of de facto segregation arising from private prejudice or the unintended consequences of economic forces, Rothstein describes how the American government systematically imposed residential segregation: with undisguised racial zoning; public housing that purposefully segregated previously mixed communities; subsidies for builders to create whites-only suburbs; tax exemptions for institutions that enforced segregation; and support for violent resistance to African Americans in white neighborhoods. A groundbreaking, “virtually indispensable” study that has already transformed our understanding of twentieth-century urban history (Chicago Daily Observer), The Color of Law forces us to face the obligation to remedy our unconstitutional past. -
The Velvet Rope Economy: How Inequality Became Big Business by
Call Number: HC110.I5S315 2020ISBN: 0525435654, 9780525435655Publication Date: Feb 9, 2021In nearly every realm of daily life--from health care to education, highways and home security--there is an invisible velvet rope, for a price, red tape is cut, lines are jumped, appointments are secured, and doors are opened. On the other side, middle- and working-class Americans fight to find an empty seat on the plane, a place in line with their kids at the amusement park, a college acceptance letter, or a hospital bed. We are all aware of the gap between the rich and everyone else, but when we weren't looking, business innovators stepped in to exploit it, shifting services away from the masses and finding new ways to profit by serving the privileged. Nelson Schwartz's must-read book brings us on a behind-the-scenes tour of this new reality and shows the toll the velvet rope divide takes on society. -
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
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Call Number: RC265.6.L24S55 2011ISBN: 9781400052189 and 1400052181Publication Date: February 2, 2010Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer who worked the same land as her slave ancestors, yet her cells—taken without her knowledge—became one of the most important tools in medicine: The first “immortal” human cells grown in culture, which are still alive today, though she has been dead for more than sixty years. HeLa cells were vital for developing the polio vaccine; uncovered secrets of cancer, viruses, and the atom bomb’s effects; helped lead to important advances like in vitro fertilization, cloning, and gene mapping; and have been bought and sold by the billions.
Yet Henrietta Lacks remains virtually unknown, buried in an unmarked grave.
Henrietta’s family did not learn of her “immortality” until more than twenty years after her death, when scientists investigating HeLa began using her husband and children in research without informed consent. And though the cells had launched a multimillion-dollar industry that sells human biological materials, her family never saw any of the profits. As Rebecca Skloot so brilliantly shows, the story of the Lacks family—past and present—is inextricably connected to the dark history of experimentation on African Americans, the birth of bioethics, and the legal battles over whether we control the stuff we are made of.
Over the decade it took to uncover this story, Rebecca became enmeshed in the lives of the Lacks family—especially Henrietta’s daughter Deborah. Deborah was consumed with questions: Had scientists cloned her mother? Had they killed her to harvest her cells? And if her mother was so important to medicine, why couldn’t her children afford health insurance?
Intimate in feeling, astonishing in scope, and impossible to put down, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks captures the beauty and drama of scientific discovery, as well as its human consequences.
Memoir
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There Will Be No Miracles Here
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Call Number: E185.97.G37A3 2018ISBN: 9780735214200 (hardcover) and 0735214204 (hardcover)Publication Date: October 3, 2018Casey Gerald comes to our fractured times as a uniquely visionary witness whose life has spanned seemingly unbridgeable divides. His story begins at the end of the world: Dallas, New Year’s Eve 1999, when he gathers with the congregation of his grandfather’s black evangelical church to see which of them will be carried off. His beautiful, fragile mother disappears frequently and mysteriously; for a brief idyll, he and his sister live like Boxcar Children on her disability checks. When Casey–following in the footsteps of his father, a gridiron legend who literally broke his back for the team–is recruited to play football at Yale, he enters a world he’s never dreamed of, the anteroom to secret societies and success on Wall Street, in Washington, and beyond. But even as he attains the inner sanctums of power, Casey sees how the world crushes those who live at its margins. He sees how the elite perpetuate the salvation stories that keep others from rising. And he sees, most painfully, how his own ascension is part of the scheme.
There Will Be No Miracles Here has the arc of a classic rags-to-riches tale, but it stands the American Dream narrative on its head. If to live as we are is destroying us, it asks, what would it mean to truly live? Intense, incantatory, shot through with sly humor and quiet fury, There Will Be No Miracles Hereinspires us to question–even shatter–and reimagine our most cherished myths.
Articles
- Kolbert, Elizabeth. “The Psychology of Inequality.” The New Yorker, 8 Jan. 2018, https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/01/15/the-psychology-of-inequality.
Academic Literature
- Exposure to Community Eligibility Provision Positively Impacts Households: Marcus, M. M, Yewell, K. G. (2021, working paper). The Effect of Free School Meals on Household Food Purchases: Evidence from the Community Eligibility Provision. National Bureau of Economic Research. https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w29395/w29395.pdf?mod=djemRTE_h
- The Community Eligibility Provision is a non-pricing food service option for schools and school districts in low income areas (USDA). With CEP, the entire student body is served breakfast and lunch at no charge, meaning lower income households do not have to submit free or reduced lunch applications for their students.
- This eliminates any shame or barriers in the application process; under free and reduced lunch programs, shame and other barriers prevent eligible families from applying. Universal access could be decreasing the stigma around free or reduced lunch.
- Relating back to The Broken Ladder, Payne realized he was poor when a new lunch lady did not know which students paid for free or reduced lunch, resulting in a week of shame and embarrassment until she learned who paid what.
- Under CEP, grocery spending and food insecurity goes down in lower income households, and the health quality of their food increases.
- Previous studies have shown increases in academic performance with decreased student food insecurity.
- The Community Eligibility Provision is a non-pricing food service option for schools and school districts in low income areas (USDA). With CEP, the entire student body is served breakfast and lunch at no charge, meaning lower income households do not have to submit free or reduced lunch applications for their students.
- Housing and income effects on HIV-related health outcomes in the San Francisco Bay Area – findings from the SPNS transwomen of color initiative: Wilson, E. C., Turner, C., Arayasirikul, S., Woods, T., Nguyen, T., Lin, R., Franza, K., Tryon, J., Nemoto, T., & Iwamoto, M. (2018). Housing and income effects on HIV-related health outcomes in the San Francisco Bay Area - findings from the SPNS transwomen of color initiative. AIDS Care, 30(11), 1356–1359. https://doi-org.ezaccess.libraries.psu.edu/10.1080/09540121.2018.1489102
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- "Transwomen of color are disproportionately impacted by HIV and may have worse health outcomes than other populations. This analysis was conducted to examine structural factors associated with poor health outcomes among transwomen of color living with HIV in the San Francisco Bay Area."
- "A majority of participants were Black or African American (110/159, 69.2%), 32 (20.1%) identified their primary race/ethnicity as Hispanic or Latino/a or Spanish, and 17 (10.7%) identified as another race/ethnicity."
- "Transwomen of color in our sample faced extreme structural barriers, including residential transience, extreme low income, high prevalence of running out of money in the last six months, high rates of food insecurity, high prevalence of income via entitlement programs, engagement in sex work and other illicit activities for income."
- "Unstable housing was the structural factor most consistently associated with poor health outcomes along the HIV care continuum and may explain engagement in other sources of income generation."
- Transgender Status, Gender Identity, and Socioeconomic Outcomes in the United States: Carpenter, C. S., Eppink, S. T., & Gonzales, G. (2020). Transgender Status, Gender Identity, and Socioeconomic Outcomes in the United States. ILR Review, 73(3), 573–599. https://doi.org/10.1177/0019793920902776
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- "Individuals who identify as transgender are significantly less likely to be college educated and less likely to identify as heterosexual than are individuals who do not identify as transgender. Controlling for these and other observed characteristics, transgender individuals have significantly lower employment rates, lower household incomes, higher poverty rates, and worse self-rated health compared to otherwise similar men who are not transgender."
- Gender and Livelihood Diversification: Maasai Women’s Market Activities in Northern Tanzania: Smith, N. M. (2015). Gender and Livelihood Diversification: Maasai Women’s Market Activities in Northern Tanzania. Journal of Development Studies, 51(3), 305–318. https://doi-org.ezaccess.libraries.psu.edu/10.1080/00220388.2014.957278
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- "East African pastoralists are increasingly diversifying their livelihoods to bring cash into the household. While men dominate these activities, women’s contributions to household economies through new market activities make them pivotal players in livelihood diversification. This article compares Maasai women’s income-earning activities at local markets with their market activities at the gemstone mining area of Mererani. It shows that women’s economic activities simultaneously challenge and reify a pastoral gender system and that this differs according to a woman’s family and household status. In addition, it addresses the implications of these processes for rural development initiatives aimed at empowering women."
"The Broken Ladder" Notes
Introduction
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Chapter One: Lunch Lady Economics
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Chapter Two: Relatively Easy
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Haber, S., Knutson, B. The Reward Circuit: Linking Primate Anatomy and Human Imaging. Neuropsychopharmacol 35, 4–26 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/npp.2009.129
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Chapter Three: Poor Logic
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Lee Ross, The Intuitive Psychologist And His Shortcomings: Distortions in the Attribution Process, Advances in Experimental Social Psychology, Academic Press, Volume 10, 1977, Pages 173-220, https://doi.org/10.1016/, (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0065260108603573)
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Cartar, R. V. (1991). A Test of Risk-Sensitive Foraging in Wild Bumble Bees. Ecology, 72(3), 888–895. https://doi.org/10.2307/1940590
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Payne, B. K., Brown-Iannuzzi, J. L., & Hannay, J. W. (2017). Economic inequality increases risk taking. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 114(18), 4643–4648. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1616453114
Chapter Four: The Right, the Left, and the Ladder
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H. Hildenbrandt, C. Carere, C.K. Hemelrijk, Self-organized aerial displays of thousands of starlings: a model, Behavioral Ecology, Volume 21, Issue 6, November-December 2010, Pages 1349–1359, https://doi.org/10.1093/beheco/arq149
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Christopher J. Bryan, Carol S. Dweck, Lee Ross, Aaron C. Kay, Natalia O. Mislavsky, Political mindset: Effects of schema priming on liberal-conservative political positions, Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, Volume 45, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 890-895, ISSN 0022-1031, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jesp.2009.04.007, (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022103109000882)
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Lambert, A. J., Scherer, L. D., Schott, J. P., Olson, K. R., Andrews, R. K., O'Brien, T. C., & Zisser, A. R. (2010). Rally effects, threat, and attitude change: An integrative approach to understanding the role of emotion. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 98(6), 886-903. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/a0019086
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Landau, M. J., Solomon, S., Greenberg, J., Cohen, F., Pyszczynski, T., Arndt, J., Miller, C. H., Ogilvie, D. M., & Cook, A. (2004). Deliver us from Evil: The Effects of Mortality Salience and Reminders of 9/11 on Support for President George W. Bush. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 30(9), 1136–1150. https://doi.org/10.1177/0146167204267988
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Willer, R. (2004) The Effects of Government-Issued Terror Warnings on Presidential Approval Ratings. 1-12. https://crisp.org.uiowa.edu/sites/crisp.org.uiowa.edu/files/2020-04/10.1.pdf
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Frank, T. (2004) What's the Matter with Kansas? How Conservatives Won the Heart of America. https://catalog.libraries.psu.edu/catalog/2745285 (The Broken Ladder uses the 2007 edition.)
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The Onion. (2017, October 18). Nation's poor win election for nation's rich. The Onion. Retrieved October 22, 2021, from https://www.theonion.com/nations-poor-win-election-for-nations-rich-1819567598.
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Gelman, A. (2009). Red State, Blue State, Rich State, Poor State: Why Americans Vote the Way They Do. https://catalog.libraries.psu.edu/catalog/19425366
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Buyology Inc. (2018, June 30). New Study reveals that Democrats and Republicans disagree on the brands they love most. New Study Reveals That Democrats and Republicans Disagree on the Brands They Love Most. Retrieved October 22, 2021, from https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/new-study-reveals-that-democrats-and-republicans-disagree-on-the-brands-they-love-most-158868315.html.
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Mettler, S. (2011). The Submerged State: How Invisible Government Policies Undermine American Democracy. https://catalog.libraries.psu.edu/catalog/9025245
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Bartels, L. (2005). Homer Gets a Tax Cut: Inequality and Public Policy in the American Mind. Perspectives on Politics, 3(1), 15-31. doi:10.1017/S1537592705050036
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Brown-Iannuzzi, J. L., Lundberg, K. B., Kay, A. C., & Payne, B. K. (2015). Subjective Status Shapes Political Preferences. Psychological Science, 26(1), 15–26. http://www.jstor.org/stable/24543846
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Andris C, Lee D, Hamilton MJ, Martino M, Gunning CE, et al. (2015) The Rise of Partisanship and Super-Cooperators in the U.S. House of Representatives. PLOS ONE 10(4): e0123507. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0123507
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Carlin, G. (1984) "Carlin on Campus." https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x4acovl
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Robinson, R. J., Keltner, D., Ward, A., & Ross, L. (1995). Actual versus assumed differences in construal: "naive realism" in intergroup perception and conflict. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 68(3), 404-417. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/0022-3514.68.3.404
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Polarized America: The Dance of Ideology and Unequal Riches by McCarty, N., Poole K. T., and Rosenthal H. (2006) https://catalog.libraries.psu.edu/catalog/3342659
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Campbell, M. (2014, September 30). Breaking: Leslie Rutledge's voter registration canceled; candidacy now in question. Blue Hog Report. Retrieved October 23, 2021, from https://www.bluehogreport.com/2014/09/30/breaking-leslie-rutledges-voter-registration-canceled-candidacy-now-in-question/.
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Chapter Five: Long Lives and Tall Tombstones
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Jackson, T. (2009). Prosperity without growth? The transition to a sustainable economy. Retrieved October 23, 2021, from http://www.sd-commission.org.uk/data/files/publications/prosperity_without_growth_report.pdf.
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Wilkinson, R., & Pickett, K. (2010). The spirit level: Why greater equality makes societies stronger. (). Washington: Poverty & Race Research Action Council. Retrieved from Black Studies Center; Black Studies Periodicals Database; Ethnic NewsWatch; Social Science Premium Collection Retrieved from http://ezaccess.libraries.psu.edu/login?url=https://www.proquest.com/reports/spirit-level-why-greater-equality-makes-societies/docview/338560312/se-2?accountid=13158
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Case, A., & Deaton, A. (2015). Rising morbidity and mortality in midlife among white non-Hispanic Americans in the 21st century. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 112(49), 15078–15083. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1518393112
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Gabriel, G., Fitzgerald, M. L., & Author: (2013, April 5). Hans Selye: The discovery of stress. Brain Connection. Retrieved October 23, 2021, from https://brainconnection.brainhq.com/2013/04/05/hans-selye-the-discovery-of-stress/.
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Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers: A Guide to Stress, Stress-Related Diseases, and Coping by Robert M. Sapolsky (1994) https://catalog.libraries.psu.edu/catalog/1479605
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War Before Civilization by Lawrence H. Keeley (1996) https://catalog.libraries.psu.edu/catalog/1878688
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R.C. Stavisky, M.R. Adams, S.L. Watson, J.R. Kaplan. Dominance, Cortisol, and Behavior in Small Groups of Female Cynomolgus Monkeys (Macaca fascicularis). Hormones and Behavior, Volume 39, Issue 3. 2001. Pages 232-238, ISSN 0018-506X, https://doi.org/10.1006/hbeh.2001.1650. (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0018506X01916502)
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Andrew Steptoe, Natalie Owen, Sabine Kunz-Ebrecht, Vidya Mohamed-Ali, Inflammatory cytokines, socioeconomic status, and acute stress responsivity. Brain, Behavior, and Immunity, Volume 16, Issue 6. 2002. Pages 774-784, ISSN 0889-1591, https://doi.org/10.1016/S0889-1591(02)00030-2. (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0889159102000302)
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Muscatell, K. A., Dedovic, K., Slavich, G. M., Jarcho, M. R., Breen, E. C., Bower, J. E., Irwin, M. R., & Eisenberger, N. I. (2016). Neural mechanisms linking social status and inflammatory responses to social stress. Social cognitive and affective neuroscience, 11(6), 915–922. https://doi.org/10.1093/scan/nsw025
Chapter Six: God, Conspiracies, and the Language of the Angels
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Thornhill, T. (2014, October 2). Christians begin worshipping tree in Russia after seeing jesus on its trunk . Daily Mail Online. Retrieved October 23, 2021, from https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2777979/A-sign-leaf-Christians-begin-worshipping-tree-Russia-seeing-face-Jesus-trunk.html.
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BBC. (2009, May 28). Family See Jesus Image in Marmite. BBC News. Retrieved October 23, 2021, from http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/8071865.stm.
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Stanton, A. (2005, December 5). Virgin Mary-shaped Funyun sells for $609 on eBay. The Register Herald. Retrieved October 23, 2021, from https://www.register-herald.com/news/local_news/virgin-mary-shaped-funyun-sells-for-609-on-ebay/article_0554a4ab-55de-5231-bacb-8adaef67b5b7.html.
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The Natural History of Religion by David Hume (1956 - Edited with Introduction by H.E. Root) https://catalog.libraries.psu.edu/catalog/1045961
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Internet Discussions: How to Win Powerball Prizes Consistently https://www.lottery-winning.com/how-to-win-powerball/
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Whitson, J. A., & Galinsky, A. D. (2008). Lacking Control Increases Illusory Pattern Perception. Science, 322(5898), 115–117. http://www.jstor.org/stable/20144957
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Epley, N., Akalis, S., Waytz, A., & Cacioppo, J. T. (2008). Creating Social Connection Through Inferential Reproduction: Loneliness and Perceived Agency in Gadgets, Gods, and Greyhounds. Psychological Science, 19(2), 114–120. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9280.2008.02056.x
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Butler, J.V. (2016), Inequality and Relative Ability Beliefs. Econ J, 126: 907-948. https://doi.org/10.1111/ecoj.12175
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Kay, A. C., Gaucher, D., Napier, J. L., Callan, M. J., & Laurin, K. (2008). God and the government: Testing a compensatory control mechanism for the support of external systems. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 95(1), 18-35. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/0022-3514.95.1.18
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Gray, K., & Wegner, D. M. (2010). Blaming God for Our Pain: Human Suffering and the Divine Mind. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 14(1), 7–16. https://doi.org/10.1177/1088868309350299
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The New York Times. (1968, February 25). A bleak outlook is seen for religion. The New York Times. Retrieved October 24, 2021, from https://www.nytimes.com/1968/02/25/archives/a-bleak-outlook-is-seen-for-religion.html.
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The global religious landscape. Pew Research Center's Religion & Public Life Project. (2020, August 27). Retrieved October 24, 2021, from https://www.pewforum.org/2012/12/18/global-religious-landscape-exec/.
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Solt, F., Habel, P., & Grant, J. T. (2011). Economic Inequality, Relative Power, and Religiosity. Social Science Quarterly, 92(2), 447–465. http://www.jstor.org/stable/42956495
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Hackney, C., Sanders, G. (2003). Religiosity and Mental Health: A Meta-Analysis of Recent Studies. Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, 43-55. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/YJQX3KBDNB5AHYE2EUEA?target=10.1111/1468-5906.t01-1-00160
Chapter Seven: Inequality in Black and White
- Many Thousands Gone: the First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America by Ira Berlin https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/pensu/detail.action?docID=3300728#
- Norton, M. I., & Sommers, S. R. (2011). Whites See Racism as a Zero-Sum Game That They Are Now Losing. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 6(3), 215–218. https://doi.org/10.1177/1745691611406922
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- Marked: Race, Crime, and Finding Work in an Era of Mass Incarceration by Devah Pager (2007) https://catalog.libraries.psu.edu/catalog/3935164
- Prejudice and Your Child by Kenneth B. Clark (1988) https://catalog.libraries.psu.edu/catalog/1736627
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Blair, I. V., Judd, C. M., & Chapleau, K. M. (2004). The Influence of Afrocentric Facial Features in Criminal Sentencing. Psychological Science, 15(10), 674–679. http://www.jstor.org/stable/40064026
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Eberhardt, J. L., Davies, P. G., Purdie-Vaughns, V. J., & Johnson, S. L. (2006). Looking Deathworthy: Perceived Stereotypicality of Black Defendants Predicts Capital-Sentencing Outcomes. Psychological Science, 17(5), 383–386. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9280.2006.01716.x
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Berman, M. (2016, March 14). Former South Carolina Trooper pleads guilty to shooting unarmed driver during traffic stop. The Washington Post. Retrieved October 24, 2021, from https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2016/03/14/former-south-carolina-trooper-pleads-guilty-to-shooting-unarmed-driver-during-traffic-stop/.
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Payne, B. K. (2001). Prejudice and perception: The role of automatic and controlled processes in misperceiving a weapon. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 81(2), 181-192. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/0022-3514.81.2.181
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Krosch, A. R., & Amodio, D. M. (2014). Economic scarcity alters the perception of race. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 111(25), 9079–9084. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1404448111
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Ana Guinote, Guillermo B. Willis, Cristiana Martellotta. Social power increases implicit prejudice, Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, Volume 46, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 299-307, ISSN 0022-1031, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jesp.2009.11.012. (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022103109003059)
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Why Americans Hate Welfare: Race, Media, and the Politics of Antipoverty Policy by Martin Gilens (1999, earlier edition than used by Payne) https://catalog.libraries.psu.edu/catalog/1902537
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The Two-Party South by Alexander P. Lamis (1990) https://catalog.libraries.psu.edu/catalog/1478346
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Kertscher, T. (2014, March 14). Politifact - in context: Were Paul Ryan's poverty comments a 'thinly veiled racial attack'? Politifact. Retrieved October 24, 2021, from https://www.politifact.com/article/2014/mar/14/context-paul-ryans-poverty-comments-racial-attack/.
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Brown-Iannuzzi, J. L., Dotsch, R., Cooley, E., & Payne, B. K. (2017). The Relationship Between Mental Representations of Welfare Recipients and Attitudes Toward Welfare. Psychological Science, 28(1), 92–103. https://doi.org/10.1177/0956797616674999
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Eibach, R. P., & Ehrlinger, J. (2006). “Keep Your Eyes on the Prize”: Reference Points and Racial Differences in Assessing Progress Toward Equality. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 32(1), 66–77. https://doi.org/10.1177/0146167205279585
Chapter Eight: The Corporate Ladder
- Working: People Talk about What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They Do by Studs Terkel https://catalog.libraries.psu.edu/catalog/3197404
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Ashforth, B. E., & Kreiner, G. E. (1999). “How Can You Do It?”: Dirty Work and the Challenge of Constructing a Positive Identity. The Academy of Management Review, 24(3), 413–434. https://doi.org/10.2307/259134
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Pettigrew, T. F. (2015). Samuel Stouffer and Relative Deprivation. Social Psychology Quarterly, 78(1), 7–24. http://www.jstor.org/stable/44075386
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Samuel Stouffer and the GI Survey: Sociologists and Soldiers During the Second World War by Joseph W. Ryan (2013) https://catalog.libraries.psu.edu/catalog/19431293
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Slater, P. E. (1955). Role Differentiation in Small Groups. American Sociological Review, 20(3), 300–310. https://doi.org/10.2307/2087389
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Sutton, R. I., & Hargadon, A. (1996). Brainstorming groups in context: Effectiveness in a product design firm. Administrative Science Quarterly, 41(4), 685-718. Retrieved from http://ezaccess.libraries.psu.edu/login?url=https://www.proquest.com/scholarly-journals/brainstorming-groups-context-effectiveness/docview/203946806/se-2?accountid=13158
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Kwoh, L. (2013, May 7). When the CEO Burns Out. The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved October 24, 2021, from https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424127887323687604578469124008524696.
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Forbes Magazine. (2009, April 17). Stress management for the CEO. Forbes. Retrieved October 24, 2021, from https://www.forbes.com/2009/04/16/ceo-network-management-leadership-stress.html?sh=1acda2687e54.
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Sherman, G. D., Lee, J. J., Cuddy, A. J., Renshon, J., Oveis, C., Gross, J. J., & Lerner, J. S. (2012). Leadership is associated with lower levels of stress. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 109(44), 17903–17907. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1207042109
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Card, D., Mas, A., Moretti, E., & Saez, E. (2012). Inequality at work: The effect of peer salaries on job satisfaction. The American Economic Review, 102(6), 2981-3003. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1257/aer.102.6.2981
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Bloom, M. (1999). The Performance Effects of Pay Dispersion on Individuals and Organizations. The Academy of Management Journal, 42(1), 25–40. https://doi.org/10.2307/256872
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Andy Adcroft, Mike Mondello, Joel Maxcy.. (February 6, 2009). The impact of salary dispersion and performance bonuses in NFL organizations. Management Decision. https://advance.lexis.com/api/document?collection=news&id=urn:contentItem:5V6X-0HV1-JB00-33WT-00000-00&context=1516831.
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Melton, Michael (01/01/2000). "Risk taking in tournaments". Managerial finance (0307-4358), 26 (7), p. 52. Interlibrary loan request
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Becker, B. E., & Huselid, M. A. (1992). The Incentive Effects of Tournament Compensation Systems. Administrative Science Quarterly, 37(2), 336–350. https://doi.org/10.2307/2393228
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Cowherd, D. M., & Levine, D. I. (1992). Product Quality and Pay Equity Between Lower-Level Employees and Top Management: An Investigation of Distributive Justice Theory. Administrative Science Quarterly, 37(2), 302–320. https://doi.org/10.2307/2393226
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Greenberg, J. (1990). Employee theft as a reaction to underpayment inequity: The hidden cost of pay cuts. Journal of Applied Psychology, 75(5), 561-568. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/0021-9010.75.5.561
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Kiatpongsan, S., & Norton, M. I. (2014). How Much (More) Should CEOs Make? A Universal Desire for More Equal Pay. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 9(6), 587–593. http://www.jstor.org/stable/44290165
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FITZA, M. A. (2014). THE USE OF VARIANCE DECOMPOSITION IN THE INVESTIGATION OF CEO EFFECTS: HOW LARGE MUST THE CEO EFFECT BE TO RULE OUT CHANCE? Strategic Management Journal, 35(12), 1839–1852. http://www.jstor.org/stable/43897730
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Woolfolk, M. E., Castellan, W., & Brooks, C. I. (1983). Pepsi versus Coke: Labels, Not Tastes, Prevail. Psychological Reports, 52(1), 185–186. https://doi.org/10.2466/pr0.1983.52.1.185
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McClure, S. M., Li, J., Tomlin, D., Cypert, K. S., Montague, L. M., & Montague, P. R. (2004). Neural correlates of behavioral preference for culturally familiar drinks. Neuron, 44(2), 379-387. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.2004.09.019
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Levitin D. J. (2014). Expert violinists can't tell old from new. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 111(20), 7168–7169. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1405851111
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Quigley, T. J., Graffin, S. D. (2017) Reaffirming the CEO effect is significant and much larger than chance: A comment on Fitza (2014), Strategic Management Journal, 38(3), 793-801. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/TAXBZHBIHMTBQMCUKPZQ?target=10.1002/smj.2503
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Fitza, M. A. (2016) How much do CEOs really matter? Reaffirming that the CEO effect is mostly due to chance, Strategic Management Journal, 38(3), 802-811. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/27PCWMDNPKZTB4SAR797?target=10.1002/smj.2597
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Jones, J. M. (2009) Gallup. Most American's Favor Gov't. Action to Limit Executive Pay. https://news.gallup.com/poll/120872/americans-favor-gov-action-limit-executive-pay.aspx
Chapter Nine: The Art of Living Vertically
- Kahneman, D., & Deaton, A. (2010). High income improves evaluation of life but not emotional well-being. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 107(38), 16489–16493. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1011492107
- Easterlin, R. A. (1973, Winter). Does money buy happiness? The Public Interest, 30, 3. Retrieved from http://ezaccess.libraries.psu.edu/login?url=https://www.proquest.com/magazines/does-money-buy-happiness/docview/1298112841/se-2?accountid=13158
- Easterlin, R. A., McVey, L. A., Switek, M., Sawangfa, O., & Zweig, J. S. (2010). The happiness-income paradox revisited. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 107(52), 22463–22468. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1015962107
- Pinker, S. (2011) The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined. Viking. https://catalog.libraries.psu.edu/catalog/7398956
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Oishi, S., Kesebir, S., & Diener, E. (2011). Income Inequality and Happiness. Psychological Science, 22(9), 1095–1100. http://www.jstor.org/stable/41319994
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Ferriman A. (2007). BMJ readers choose the “sanitary revolution” as greatest medical advance since 1840. BMJ : British Medical Journal, 334(7585), 111. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.39097.611806.DB
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Mohan, B., Norton, M. I., Deshpande, R. (2015). Paying Up for Fair Pay: Consumers Prefer Firms with Lower CEO-to-Worker Pay Ratios. Harvard Business School Marketing Unit Working Paper No. 15-091. https://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2611289
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Gordon, N. J. (2014) The Conservative Case for a Guaranteed Basic Income. The Atlantic. https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2014/08/why-arent-reformicons-pushing-a-guaranteed-basic-income/375600/
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Krueger, A. (2012) The Rise and Consequences of Inequality. Center for American Progress. https://www.americanprogress.org/events/2012/01/12/17181/the-rise-and-consequences-of-inequality/
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Suls, J., Martin, R., & Wheeler, L. (2002). Social Comparison: Why, With Whom, and With What Effect? Current Directions in Psychological Science, 11(5), 159–163. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8721.00191
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Cohn, D., Morin, R. (2008) American Mobility: Who Moves? Who Stays Put? Where's Home? Pew Research Center. https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2008/12/17/who-moves-who-stays-put-wheres-home/
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Chetty, R., Hendren, N., & Katz, L. F. (2016). The effects of exposure to better neighborhoods on children: New evidence from the moving to opportunity experiment. The American Economic Review, 106(4), 855-902. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1257/aer.20150572
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Rosenbaum, J. E., & Deluca, S. (2008). What kinds of neighborhoods change lives the chicago gautreaux housing program and recent mobility programs. Indiana Law Review , 41(3), 653-662. https://heinonline.org/HOL/P?h=hein.journals/indilr41&i=661
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Walasek, L., & Brown, G. D. A. (2015). Income Inequality and Status Seeking: Searching for Positional Goods in Unequal U.S. States. Psychological Science, 26(4), 527–533. https://doi.org/10.1177/0956797614567511
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Frank, R. H. (1999 -- earlier edition than used for book). Luxury Fever: Why Money Fails to Satisfy in an Era of Excess. Free Press. https://catalog.libraries.psu.edu/catalog/1861275
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Dunn, E., Norton, M. (2013 -- earlier edition than used for book). Happy Money: The Science of Happier Spending. Simon & Schuster. https://catalog.libraries.psu.edu/catalog/10131684
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Piff, P. K., Stancato, D. M., Côté, S., Mendoza-Denton, R., & Keltner, D. (2012). Higher social class predicts increased unethical behavior. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 109(11), 4086–4091. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1118373109
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Frank, R. H. (2016). Success and Luck: Good Fortune and the Myth of Meritocracy. Princeton University Press. https://catalog.libraries.psu.edu/catalog/17513667
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Davidson, P. (2016). Does a $70,000 Minimum Wage Work? USA Today. https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2016/05/26/does-70000-minimum-wage-work/84913242/
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Niro Sivanathan, Nathan C. Pettit, Protecting the self through consumption: Status goods as affirmational commodities, Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, Volume 46, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 564-570, ISSN 0022-1031, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jesp.2010.01.006. (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022103110000247)
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Schmeichel, B. J., & Vohs, K. (2009). Self-affirmation and self-control: Affirming core values counteracts ego depletion. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 96(4), 770-782. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/a0014635
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Walton, G. M., & Cohen, G. L. (2011). A Brief Social-Belonging Intervention Improves Academic and Health Outcomes of Minority Students. Science, 331(6023), 1447–1451. http://www.jstor.org/stable/29783880
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Cohen, G. L., Garcia, J., Purdie-Vaughns, V., Apfel, N., Brzustoski, P. (2009) Recursive Processes in Self-Affirmation: Intervening to Close the Minority Achievement Gap. Science, 324(5925), 400-403. https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.1170769
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Sherman, D. K., Hartson, K. A., Binning, K. R., Purdie-Vaughns, V., Garcia, J., Taborsky-Barba, S., . . . Cohen, G. L. (2013). Deflecting the trajectory and changing the narrative: How self-affirmation affects academic performance and motivation under identity threat. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 104(4), 591-618. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/a0031495
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Hall, C. C., Zhao, J., & Shafir, E. (2014). Self-Affirmation Among the Poor: Cognitive and Behavioral Implications. Psychological Science, 25(2), 619–625. http://www.jstor.org/stable/24539837