title: The American self and the long march to legal equality.
abstract: Legally, women, Native Americans, and African-Americans were defined by the American Constitution as inferior. The pragmatists gradually showed that all selves are equal. These ideas helped the minorities to attain nearly full legal status. But economic status is going in the other direction, toward inequality. It threatens to overcome the hard-won legal equality and make it meaningless.
authors: Department of Sociology, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois, USA. norbert@redshift.com
authors: Norbert
authors: N
authors: Wiley
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