Double exposure : poverty & race in America / edited by Chester Hartman ; foreword by Bill Bradley ; preface by Julian Bond.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hartman, Chester W.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Racism--United States.

Racism.

United States.

Poverty--United States.

Poverty.

United States--Race relations.

Race relations.

African Americans--Economic conditions.

African Americans.

Physical Description:

xxii, 258 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Armonk, N.Y. : M.E. Sharpe, 1997.

Summary:

"A provocative and powerful collection of eclectic writings on the central moral issue of our times". -- Jonathan Kozol, author of Amazing Grace: The Lives of Children and the Conscience of a Nation

"Double Exposure delivers a double dose of smart writing, controlled anger, and devasting common sense". -- Barbara Ehrenreich, author of Worst Years of Our Lives: Irreverent Notes from a Decade of Greed

This book provides the most up-to-date and comprehensive review of the major topics surrounding our country s most troublesome and seemingly intractable social problem: the intersection of race and poverty.

The sixty-three contributions -- by some of the nation's leading thinkers and activists (Nathan Glazer, Roger Wilkins, Senator Bill Bradley, Brent Staples, Congresswoman Maxine Waters, Manning Marable, Howard Winant, Benjamin DeMott, Max Frankel, Herbert Gans, Henry Hampton, Julian Bond, and many others), representing a variety of disciplines and backgrounds -- are organized under seven key topics: affirmative action; the "permanence of racism" thesis; the use and utility of racial and ethnic categories; multiculturalism; immigration; the "underclass" debate; and democracy/equality.

Contents:

Part1 Is Racism Permanent?

Commentaries / Howard Winant, S.M. Miller, john Brittain, Leslye Orloff, Paul Ong, Daniel Levitas, Jos<130> Padilla, Bernardine Dohrn, John Powell

Put On a Happy Face / Benjamin DeMott

The New Interntional Dynamics of Race / Howard Winant

Part 2 Racial/Ethnic Categories One Drop of Blood / Lawrence Wright

The Limitations of Directive 15 / Juanita Tamayo Lott

The Error of the Third Type / Samuel L. Myers, Jr.

Categories Count / Libero Della Piana

At the Races: the Multicultural Proposal / Ibrahim K. Sundiat

Accurate Racial/Ethnic Data Should Drive Category Review, Ra<163>1 Yzaguirre / Sonia M.P<130>rez

A Single Census Question to Measure Race, Spanish-Origin and Ancestry / Reynolds Farley

On the Census Race and Ethnic Categories / Nathan Glazer

Who Thought of Dropping Racial Categories, and Why? / John Powell

Part 3 Immigration An International Perpective on Migration / Cathi Tactaquin

Changing Relations: Newcomers and Established Residents in U.S. Communities / Robert Bach

Commentary / Cathi Tactaquin

Immigration and the Civil Rights Movements / William R. Tamayo

Job Competition between Immigrants and African Americans / Paul Ong, Abel Valenzuela

Jr. Latino Immigrants in Los Angeles: A Portrait / David Hayes-Bautista, Werner Schick, Gregory Rodriguez

The Immigration Quiz, Applied Research Center

Part 4 The Underclass American Apartheid: Segregation and the Making of the Underclass / Douglas S. Massey

Fighting the Biases Embedded in Social Concepts of the Poor / Herbert Gans

The Welfare Quiz, World Hunger Year

The Income and Jobs Quiz, World Hunger Year

Part 5 Multiculturalism Racism and Multicultural Democracy, Manning Marable

The Debate of Multiculturalism / John Powell

Social History: Our Rudder in the Midst of Storms / Henry Hampton

Part 6 Affirmative Action

The Questions to Be Asked / William L. Taylor

Racism has Its Privileges / Roger Wilkins

Scapegoating, Maxine Waters Why Bosses like It

The Economist

The Presumption of Stupidity

Affirmative Action, Occupational Apartheid / Brent Staples

Reaffirm the Affirmative / Max Frankel

The Army's Success / Charles Moskos

Affirmative Action: R.I.P. / Salim Muwakkil

Reparations Dialogue / John Powell, Sharon Parker, Theodore M. Shaw, Howard Winant, Richard America, David McReynolds, Kalonji Olusegun, Ronald Trosper, John Tateishi

The Affirmative Action Quiz / Fred Pincus

Part 7 Democracy/Equality Race, Wealth and Inequality in America / Melvin Oliver, Thoams Shapiro

Respect! / S.M. Miller, Karen Marie

Ferroggiaro Reuniting City and Suburb

The Key to Inner City Progress / David Rusk

Commentary / Margaret Weir, Eric Mann, John Calmore

Economic Inequality Quiz / World Hunger

Year Quiz Answers.

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

1563249618

1563249626

OCLC:

35029727