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This timely collection of essays provides a unique perspective on persistent inequality faced by racial and ethnic minority groups around the world. Particularly valuable is the attention paid to indigenous people and the racism and discrimination they face. (Graham Hingangaroa Smith, Distinguished Professor in Indigenous Education, The University of British Columbia, Canada) Ethnic/racial inequality is a pervasive international phenomenon present in both the poorest and the most affluent of nations. This volume brings together an invaluable and a diverse array of papers that explore, in a comparative context, policy measures intended to close the gap. It will serve as a definitive text for ongoing conversations about how best to achieve group-based social justice. (William Darity Jr., Boshamer Professor of Economics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Research Professor of Public Policy Studies, Duke University) The book with its broad international perspective will make an excellent supplemental reading for courses dealing with racial and ethnic minorities at the undergraduate and graduate level. (Professor Kay Madson, Professor of Sociology, Concordia University - Saint Paul)

« This timely collection of essays provides a unique perspective on persistent inequality faced by racial and ethnic minority groups around the world. Particularly valuable is the attention paid to indigenous people and the racism and discrimination they face. -- Graham Hingangaroa Smith

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The Editors: Samuel L. Myers, Jr. is the Roy Wilkins Professor of Human Relations and Social Justice at the Hubert H. Humphrey Insititute of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota. He is former president of the National Economic Association (NEA) and of the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management (APPAM). His most recent books are Crime Control and Social Justice (2003) with Darnell F. Hawkins and Randolph N. Stone, Faculty of Color in Academe (2000) with Caroline Turner and Persistent Disparity (1998) with William A. Darity, Jr. He received his Ph.D. in economics from MIT and his undergraduate degree from Morgan State University in Baltimore, Maryland. Bruce Corrie is Professor of Economics at Concordia University in St. Paul, Minnesota, and has a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Notre Dame. He was appointed by Governor Jesse Ventura to chair the Governor's Working Group on Minority Business Development, which produced the first comprehensive report on strategies to tap into the emerging domestic markets in Minnesota. His views have appeared on various mainstream media outlets and the ethnic press. He is founding editor of the International Policy Review, was a member of the editorial board of Social Indicators Research, and author of numerous articles in popular and academic journals. He is founding editor of a new online journal www.policybriefs.org, which provides diverse perspectives on policy issues.

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