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Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. The More Things Change, the More They Stay the Same: Some (Incomplete and Unsatisfying) Explanations for Persistent Inequality

2. Cheating at the Starting Line: How White Racial Cartels Gained an Early Unfair Advantage during Jim Crow

3. Racial Cartels in Action: An In-Depth Look at Historical Racial Cartels in Housing and Politics

4. Oh Dad, Poor Dad: How Whites’ Early Unfair Advantage in Wealth Became Self-Reinforcing over Time

5. It’s How You Play the Game: How Whites Created Institutional Rules That Favored Them over Time

6. Not What You Know, but Who You Know: How Social Networks Reproduce Early Advantage

7. Please Won’t You Be My Neighbor?: How Neighborhood Effects Reproduce Racial Segregation

8. Locked In: How White Advantage May Now Have Become Hard-Wired into the System

9. Reframing Race: How the Lock-In Model Helps Us to Think in New Ways about Racial Inequality

10. Unlocking Lock-In: Some General Observations (and One or Two Suggestions) on Dismantling Lock-In

Conclusion

Notes

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