Download or read book Race and the Invisible Hand written by Deirdre A. Royster and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2003-10-02 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prominent figures from Booker T. Washington to William Julius Wilson have dispensed the same advice to young black men: 'Get a trade'. This text puts such folk wisdom to an empirical test and exposes the subtleties and discrepancies of a workplace that favours the white job seeker over the black.