Background
FREEMAN, Richard B. was born in 1945 in Newburgh, New York, United States of America.
(This extensively revised edition of Blacks in the White E...)
This extensively revised edition of Blacks in the White Establishment? adds fifteen years to the life stories of the African Americans whose opportunities were dramatically changed by a nationally prominent educational opportunity program that provided scholarships for disadvantaged people of color to attend the same elite boarding schools that educate the children of wealthy white Americans. Beyond tracing the individuals into middle age, and expanding coverage of their careers, with special attention to experiences in the corporate world, a new chapter on their children's education and early careers gives the new edition a poignant and unusual intergenerational perspective. Blacks in the White Elite shows why America is at a crucial juncture in relations between blacks and whites, when advances made since the Civil Rights Movement could either continue or retrench, depending on the decisions made by our governments, communities, and schools. The voices of African Americans heard in this book bring home for the reader the everyday impact of national policy issues and debates on race and class in America.
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(This extensively revised edition of Blacks in the White E...)
This extensively revised edition of Blacks in the White Establishment? adds fifteen years to the life stories of the African Americans whose opportunities were dramatically changed by a nationally prominent educational opportunity program that provided scholarships for disadvantaged people of color to attend the same elite boarding schools that educate the children of wealthy white Americans. Beyond tracing the individuals into middle age, and expanding coverage of their careers, with special attention to experiences in the corporate world, a new chapter on their children's education and early careers gives the new edition a poignant and unusual intergenerational perspective. Blacks in the White Elite shows why America is at a crucial juncture in relations between blacks and whites, when advances made since the Civil Rights Movement could either continue or retrench, depending on the decisions made by our governments, communities, and schools. The voices of African Americans heard in this book bring home for the reader the everyday impact of national policy issues and debates on race and class in America.
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( For several years, the armies of Napoleon III deployed...)
For several years, the armies of Napoleon III deployed some 450 Muslim Sudanese slave soldiers in Veracruz, the port of Mexico City. As in the other case of Western hemisphere military slavery (the West India Regiments, a British unit in existence 1795-1815), the Sudanese were imported from Africa in the hopes that they would better survive the tropical diseases that so terribly afflicted European soldiers. In both cases, the Africans did indeed fulfill these expectations. The mixture of cultures embodied by this event has piqued the interest of several historians, so it is by no means unknown. Hill and Hogg provide a particularly thorough account of this exotic interlude, explaining its background, looking in detail at the battle record in Mexico, and figuring out who exactly made up the battalion. Much in their account is odd and interesting, for example, the Sudanese superiority to Austrian troops and their festive nine-day spree in Paris on the emperor's tab. The authors also assess the episode's longer-term impact on the Sudan, showing that the veterans of Mexico, having learnt much from their extended exposure to French military practices, rose quickly in the ranks, then taught these methods to others.
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(Black Country Elites is a study of the people who ran Vic...)
Black Country Elites is a study of the people who ran Victorian industrial towns; it also examines the institutions, policies, rituals, and networks these urban elites deployed to cope with urban growth, social unrest, and relative economic decline. Concentrating on a particularly grimy district of the industrial Midlands, the book demonstrates the surprisingly great resources, coherence, sophistication and impact of the area's mainly middle class leaders, who were well linked to regional and national power centers. The strength of this provincial industrial elite suggests the need to reexamine the influential view that Victorian Britain's social development was dominated by London and by land, the professions and finance.
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(Vince Dowd became a Millionaire in his 30’s, but life was...)
Vince Dowd became a Millionaire in his 30’s, but life was not easy nor did it start out that way. He was born into a dysfunctional alcoholic family. He flunked kindergarten, was labeled slow and classified as a special needs child, all of which took their toll on his self-image. Some did believe in him however, even when he did not believe in himself. By 1988 Vince had had enough and began a journey that would change his life. He stared the journey of working on himself and stopped trying to fix the world. He was deep in debt and put his head down to achieve success with no excuses. He learned the secrets of trading the financial markets, chief among them, is "you don’t see the financial markets as they are, you see the markets as you are." Every trader has developed patterns in their life, they are filters and they cause you to take action that can be detrimental to your success as a trader. Make positive changes internally and you will start to see not only more success in trading but in life in general. Other secrets are: the Chinese Bamboo tree, it holds a lesson which if most people would follow it would radically change their lives...never, ever be seduced into thinking that if you just learn a few magic bullet strategies you will make a lot of money, that is what the “so called” gurus want you to believe. Dowd also believes strongly in "knowing your EXITS…BEFORE you enter," the simple misstep of not knowing your exits in a building on fire could cost your life, most never check the exits…in trading you MUST know your exit before entry and there is more than one. Not only does Dowd reveal true insights for success in any market, but he challenges you to think differently. Dowd’s belief is that the thought creates the emotional resonance and that thought mixed with emotion creates an action. The action then produces a result. Most never trace their actions back to the thought and emotion and thus no learning takes place, you must observe yourself more than anything else to be a great trader. By far, the most important aspect of trading is realizing that you need to follow a Tell-Show-Do approach. You must learn to trade by being told how to trade then allow them to show you and finally have them watch over you as you do it. This is the way you learned everything you succeed at, trading is no different. The Black Book of Elite Traders says something a bit different, and it says it in a way that every reader can understand.
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FREEMAN, Richard B. was born in 1945 in Newburgh, New York, United States of America.
Bachelor of Arts Dartmouth College, 1964. Doctor of Philosophy Harvard University, 1969.
Professor of Economics, Harvard University, since 1979.
(This extensively revised edition of Blacks in the White E...)
(This extensively revised edition of Blacks in the White E...)
(Black Country Elites is a study of the people who ran Vic...)
( For several years, the armies of Napoleon III deployed...)
(Vince Dowd became a Millionaire in his 30’s, but life was...)
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Empirical findings: students’ supply responsiveness is very sizable. High-level job markets are subject to cobweb-type fluctuations. Return to college training in the West has dropped in era of educational expansion.
Minorities have progressed in era of anti-bias activity in United States. Slow economic progress of Blacks in United States is due to loss of voting rights and consequent governmental discrimination at turn of century. Trade unions have a sizable non-wage effect, best analysed in ‘exit-voice’ framework (effects include reduced turnover, greater fringe benefits, reduced inequality).
Measurement error in longitudinal data biasses estimates considerably. Unions reduce profits of concentrated industries. And decline of union representation in United States due to severe management opposition.