INEQUALITY, POVERTY, AND MOBILITY.

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This seminar course provides a graduate-level introduction to inequality, poverty, and mobility. We will focus on the United States, exploring the contemporary structure as well as long term trends in the distribution of material and nonmaterial resources and the economic, social, and cultural forces that generate and perpetuate the unequal distribution of resources. Our focus will be on inequalities in the areas and intersections of social class, gender, and race.