The Inequality Reader: Contemporary and Foundational Readings in Race Class and Gender

Oriented toward the introductory student, The Inequality Reader is the essential textbook for undergraduate and graduate courses. The editors have assembled the most relevant classic and contemporary readings, providing balanced coverage of inequality spast and present. The carefully selected essays are methodologically diverse and interdisciplinary in nature andcoverthe important course topics such as poverty, discrimination,andgender. With thirty new readings, the second edition provides expanded focus on policy issues, allowing students to learnaboutthe possibilities for improving inequality, as well as additional qualitative readings that make the scholarship more accessible and relatable. Now more than ever, The Inequality Readeris theone-stop compendium of all the must-read pieces, featuring the most important qualitative and quantitative scholarship in the field.