{"id":17542,"date":"2009-12-07T10:09:04","date_gmt":"2009-12-07T15:09:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=17542"},"modified":"2014-01-20T02:01:40","modified_gmt":"2014-01-20T07:01:40","slug":"joblessness-and-the-intersection-of-class-and-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2009\/12\/07\/joblessness-and-the-intersection-of-class-and-race\/","title":{"rendered":"Joblessness and the Intersection of Class and Race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week the <em>New York Times<\/em> featured <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/12\/01\/us\/01race.html?_r=1&amp;hpw\" target=\"_blank\">a story<\/a> about joblessness rates among black and white men and women.\u00a0\u00a0 As the figures below show, black men and women always face higher levels of unemployment compared to whites of the same education level; for men, the disparity increases as education level increases; and for black women, that pattern holds at least for 2009.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-17545\" title=\"popup\" alt=\"popup\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2009\/12\/popup1.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"796\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2009\/12\/popup1.jpg 450w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2009\/12\/popup1-282x500.jpg 282w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>For more detailed data on this phenomenon, see our posts on <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2009\/11\/04\/race-and-the-economic-downturn\/\" target=\"_self\">race and the economic downturn<\/a>, the <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2009\/11\/14\/race-criminal-background-and-employment\/\" target=\"_self\">intersection of race and criminal record<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2009\/06\/08\/unemployment-and-education-level\/\" target=\"_self\">education and unemployment<\/a>.<\/p>\n<span class=\"ft_signature\"><em><a href=\"http:\/\/lisa-wade.com\/\">Lisa Wade, PhD<\/a> is an Associate Professor at Tulane University. She is the author of <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/American-Hookup-New-Culture-Campus\/dp\/039328509X?ie=UTF8&amp;*Version*=1&amp;*entries*=0\">American Hookup<\/a><em>, a book about college sexual culture; a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Gender-Interactions-Institutions-Lisa-Wade\/dp\/0393931072?ie=UTF8&amp;*Version*=1&amp;*entries*=0\">textbook about gender<\/a>; and a forthcoming introductory text: <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/lisa-wade.com\/intro\/\">Terrible Magnificent Sociology<\/a><em>.\u00a0You can follow her on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lisawade\">Twitter<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/lisawadephd\/\">Instagram<\/a>.<\/em><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week the New York Times featured a story about joblessness rates among black and white men and women.\u00a0\u00a0 As the figures below show, black men and women always face higher levels of unemployment compared to whites of the same education level; for men, the disparity increases as education level increases; and for black women, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[29,36,12498,778,285,1760,1757,76],"class_list":["post-17542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-class","tag-economics","tag-economics-great-recession","tag-intersectionality","tag-raceethnicity","tag-raceethnicity-blacksafricans","tag-raceethnicity-whiteseuropeans","tag-work"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17542"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17542\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61095,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17542\/revisions\/61095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}