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Stephen Steinberg

Stephen Steinberg is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the CUNY Graduate Center. His latest book is Counterrevolution: The Crusade to Roll Back the Gains of the Civil Rights Movement (2022).

Articles

On the long reach of intellectual racism.

Stephen Steinberg

Pre-migration factors and selective migration go a long way to explaining group disparities in socioeconomic status.

Stephen Steinberg

Culture still doesn’t explain poverty.

Stephen Steinberg

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The purpose of affirmative action is to break down the wall of occupational segregation that excluded racial minorities and women from entire occupational sectors throughout American history. Whatever else one might want...
Stephen Steinberg

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