The Color of Opportunity

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The Color of Opportunity is written by Ḥayah Shṭayer and published by University of Chicago Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0226774201 (ISBN 10) and 9780226774206 (ISBN 13).

"The culmination of a six-year collaboration analyzing the Urban Poverty and Family Life Survey of Chicago, The Color of Opportunity is the first major work to compare Chicago's inner city minorities with national populations of similar race and ethnicity from a life course perspective. The authors find that blacks, whites, Mexicans, and Puerto Ricans living in poor neighborhoods differ in their experiences with early material deprivation and the lifetime disadvantages that accumulate - but they do not differ much from the urban poor in their family formation, welfare participation, or labor force attachment. Stier and Tienda find little evidence for ghetto-specific behavior, but they document the myriad ways color still restricts economic opportunity."--BOOK JACKET.