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