Sharon Collins links the rise of Black professions to market efficiency. In other words, the labor market success of the Black professional elite is tied to market efficiency.

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Collins attributes the rise of Black professionals to institutional, political, and social changes rather than to an abstract notion of market efficiency.

1) Relevant knowledge points and concepts
- Market efficiency: labor markets perfectly allocate workers to jobs based on skills and productivity, implying discrimination would be quickly eliminated by profit motives.
- Structural/institutional explanations: changes in laws, public policy (e.g., Civil Rights legislation, affirmative action), educational expansion, professionalization within Black communities, and organized political pressure can create access to professional occupations.
- Labor market segmentation and discrimination: persistent barriers do not disappear simply because markets “should” be efficient.

2) Step-by-step reasoning
- If Collins linked Black professional mobility primarily to market efficiency, she would argue that employers, seeking profit, removed racial barriers as Black workers demonstrated equal productivity.
- Instead, Collins emphasizes the role of deliberate policy changes, collective action, and institutional supports (schools, churches, Black professional networks) that opened access to professional careers.
- Empirical patterns—timed increases in Black professionals following legal and policy reforms—support an institutional explanation rather than a spontaneous market correction.

3) Calculations
- No numerical calculation is required for this conceptual question.

4) Why the correct answer is correct
- The statement rephrases Collins as tying Black elite success to market efficiency; this is incorrect because her analysis centers on non-market mechanisms (policy, organization, and institutional change) that altered opportunities. Market efficiency alone cannot account for the timing and mechanisms Collins describes.

5) Why the other option is incorrect
- The only alternative is “True.” That is incorrect because it oversimplifies Collins’s thesis and ignores her emphasis on institutional and political factors rather than purely market-driven forces.

6) Conclusion
- Therefore the correct judgment is False, matching the provided answer.

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