Race and the Invisible Hand: How White Networks Exclude Black Men from Blue-Collar Jobs

From the time of Booker T. Washington to today, and William Julius Wilson, the advice dispensed to young black men has invariably been, "Get a trade." Deirdre Royster has put this folk wisdom to an empirical test—and, in Race and the Invisible Hand, exposes the subtleties and discrepancies of a workplace that favors the white job—seeker over the black. At the heart of this study is the question: Is there something about young black men that makes them less desirable as workers than their wh...