Race, poverty, and domestic policy / edited by C. Michael Henry ; foreword by James Tobin.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Henry, C. Michael.

Series:

Yale ISPS series

The Yale ISPS series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--Social conditions.

African Americans.

African Americans--Economic conditions.

Poverty--United States.

Poverty.

United States.

Equality--United States.

Equality.

United States--Social conditions.

Social conditions.

United States--Social policy.

Social policy.

United States--Race relations--Political aspects.

Race relations.

Physical Description:

xiv, 804 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

New Haven : Yale University Press, [2004]

Summary:

What explains the continuing hardship of so many black Americans? A distinguished group of scholars analyzes the long, complex structural and environmental causes of discrimination and their effects on African-Americans. The authors examine the impact of poverty, poor health, poor schools, poor housing, poor neighborhoods, and few job opportunities--and demonstrate how multiple causes reinforce each other and condemn African-Americans to positions of inferiority and poverty. Some of the contributors examine policies designed to correct problems, while others look at the changing racial and ethnic composition in America and its implications for African-Americans, as other minorities surpass them in numbers and claim political, economic, and social attention. The late James Tobin has contributed a foreword to this important collection.

Contents:

Introduction: Historical Overview of Race and Poverty from Reconstruction to 1969 / C. Michael Henry 1

Part I Economic Inequality and Income Inequality

1 From Income Inequality to Economic Inequality / Amartya K. Sen 59

2 Racial and Ethnic Economic Inequality: A Cross-National Perspective / William A. Darity, Jr. 83

Part II Issues in Measurement of Inequality and Poverty

3 Measuring Poverty: Issues and Approaches / Daniel H. Weinberg 99

4 Medical Spending, Health Insurance, and Measurement of American Poverty / Gary Burtless, Sarah Siegel 117

Part III Structural Causes of African American Poverty

5 The Dynamic Racial Composition of the United States / Tukufu Zuberi 157

6 The New Geography of Inequality in Urban America / Douglas S. Massey 173

7 The Disparate Racial Neighborhood Impacts of Metropolitan Economic Restructuring / George Galster, Ronald Mincy, Mitch Tobin 188

Part IV Critical Factors Militating Against Black Progress: Retrospect and Prospect

8 The Demise of a Dinosaur: Analyzing School and Housing Desegregation in Yonkers / Jennifer Hochschild, Michael N. Danielson 221

9 Suburban Exclusion and the Courts: Can a Class-Based Remedy Reduce Urban Segregation? / Gary Orfield 242

10 Civil Rights and the Status of Black Americans in the 1960s and the 1990s / Reynolds Farley 270

11 Poverty, Racism, and Migration: The Health of the African American Population / David R. Williams 311

12 The American News Media and Public Misperceptions of Race and Poverty / Martin Gilens 336

Part V The Differential Impact of Skills on Earnings

13 U.S. Education and Training Policy: A Reevaluation of the Underlying Assumptions Behind the "New Consensus" / James J. Heckman 367

14 The Growing Importance of Cognitive Skills in Wage Determination / Richard J. Murnane, John B. Willett, Frank Levy 405

15 Escalating Differences and Elusive "Skills": Cognitive Abilities and the Explanation of Inequality / Samuel Bowles, Herbert Gintis, Robert Szarka 431

16 Earnings of Black and White Youth and Their Relation to Poverty / Philip M. Gleason, Glen G. Cain 449

Part VI Racial and Familial Hardship: Welfare Benefits and Welfare Reform

17 Teenage Childbearing and Personal Responsibility: An Alternative View / Arline T. Geronimus 479

18 Where Should Teen Mothers Live? What Should We Do About It? / Harold Pollack 509

19 Family Allowances and Poverty Among Lone Mother Families in the United States / Cecilia A. Conrad 565

20 How Much More Can They Work? Setting Realistic Expectations for Welfare Mothers / LaDonna Pavetti 583

21 Turning Our Backs on the New Deal: The End of Welfare in 1996 / Jeffrey Lehman, Sheldon Danziger 603

22 Fighting Poverty: Lessons from Recent U.S. History / Rebecca M. Blank 631

Part VII Communal Hardship in Black Residential Areas: Crime and Law Enforcement

23 Crime, Poverty, and Entrepreneurship / Samuel L. Myers, Jr. 653

24 Violence and the Inner-City Street Code / Elijah Anderson 670

Part VIII Economic Development of Black Communities

25 Minority Business Development Programs: Failure by Design / Timothy Bates 701

26 A Social Accounting Matrix Model of Inner-City New Haven: An Alternative Framework for Development / C. Michael Henry 731.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0300095414

OCLC:

54373202