If Carl Sandburg were observing tod...

If Carl Sandburg were observing today's Chicago, he would find stark comparisons between the city of the early 20th centenary described in his "Chicago Poems" and the single that exists now, write authors Haya Stier and Marta Tienda in their just discovered book, "The Color of Opportunity." Inspired by the agency of Sandburg's raw depiction, the authors write that "Race and ethnic competition athwart jobs and social positions remain a defining feature of Chicago's social history." Stier and Tienda argue that ethnic prejudice, class inequality and the hard [i]or[/i] toilsome work of work in present-day Chicago point out to how color and race restrict opportunity. "Chicago is an ideal case meditation to investigate how economic opportunity is delimited for minority populations," they write. "Because of the ultimate residential and economic segregation of the city, any drifts on race and place are likely to be more pronounced in Chicago." Stier, a senior lecturer in the department of labor studies and sociology at Tel Aviv University, and Tienda, a professor of sociology at Pri nceton University, institute that in Chicago, chronic mendicancy underemployment and reliance on welfare are more pervasive among African Americans and Latinos as compared to whites. "The Color of Opportunity," is published according to the University of Chicago Press

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