Civil Rights Legislation and Equal Opportunity
Professor of Sociology and Public Policy Dalton Conley talks about Civil Rights legislation and equal opportunity in the United States. Professor Conley states that while Civil Rights legislation of the 1960's "opened the game up" and allowed Black ...
African-Americans Move To The City
American history professor Alice Kessler-Harris talks about the lack of equal opportunity on the job front for African-Americans who began moving to cities in the 1920's. "I think it's sometimes painful to acknowledge just how discriminatory the wor...
The First Branch: How Does It Feel to Be a New Member of Congress?
Mickey Edwards, Jim McDermott, and Loretta Sanchez tell what it is like to walk into the House chambers for the first time as a newly elected members of Congress. Congress, like most national legislatures, has been dominated by men and moneyed inter...
Racism in the United States
Professor of Sociology and Public Policy Dalton Conley talks about the perpetuation of unequal opportunity in the United States. Professor Conley notes that there are a number of cultural, economic and social channels by which racial and class disti...