The Politics of Stratification Economics
Using Politics to Design an Unfair Economic System for Black Americans
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America’s staggering racial and economic divides did not emerge by accident—they were built. Stratification Economics exposes how centuries of law, policy, and institutional design manufactured inequality, from slavery and land dispossession to redlining, deregulation, and modern tax regimes that funnel wealth upward. Neoliberal ideology, the book shows, cloaks these structures in the language of markets and meritocracy, obscuring how privatization, austerity, and constitutional doctrine consistently entrench hierarchy. Across domains—housing, labor, education, corporate power, and the courts—the same pattern recurs: policies that appear neutral in theory reproduce racial and class stratification in practice.
Against this backdrop, the manuscript advances Stratification Economics as a transformative framework for understanding and undoing inequality. Drawing on cutting‑edge empirical research, it reveals discrimination as a rational strategy of group advantage and offers a clear blueprint for equitable reform. In doing so, it reframes the American economy not as an engine of opportunity, but as a system we must redesign to achieve it.
Marvin P. King, Jr. is Associate Professor of African American Studies & Political Science at University of Mississippi, USA.
America’s staggering racial and economic divides did not emerge by accident—they were built. Stratification Economics exposes how centuries of law, policy, and institutional design manufactured inequality, from slavery and land dispossession to redlining, deregulation, and modern tax regimes that funnel wealth upward. Neoliberal ideology, the book shows, cloaks these structures in the language of markets and meritocracy, obscuring how privatization, austerity, and constitutional doctrine consistently entrench hierarchy. Across domains—housing, labor, education, corporate power, and the courts—the same pattern recurs: policies that appear neutral in theory reproduce racial and class stratification in practice.
Against this backdrop, the manuscript advances Stratification Economics as a transformative framework for understanding and undoing inequality. Drawing on cutting‑edge empirical research, it reveals discrimination as a rational strategy of group advantage and offers a clear blueprint for equitable reform. In doing so, it reframes the American economy not as an engine of opportunity, but as a system we must redesign to achieve it.
Explains presence of continued inequality despite 50+ years of legal political equality Explores how legislation, neoliberalism, and systemic racism stratify America’s economic system based on race Eexplains how a neoliberal order championed by political elites leads to entrenched stratified economic outcomes
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Marvin King
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Stratification Economics Discrimination Political Economy Race Capitalism Group Decision-making Group Outcomes Neoliberal Economic Order Income Inequality Wealth Inequality Racialized economic inequality Economic History