Poverty & race in America : the emerging agendas / edited by Chester Hartman ; [with a foreword by Jesse L. Jackson, Jr.].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hartman, Chester W.

Poverty & Race Research Action Council.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Poverty--United States.

Poverty.

United States.

Racism--United States.

Racism.

United States--Race relations.

Race relations.

Minorities--United States--Economic conditions.

Minorities.

Economic conditions.

African Americans--Economic conditions.

African Americans.

Physical Description:

xvi, 440 pages ; 24 cm

Other Title:

Poverty and race in America

Place of Publication:

Lanham, MD : Lexington Books, [2006]

Summary:

Collected in this volume are the best articles and symposia from Poverty & Race, the bimonthly newsletter journal of The Poverty & Race Research Action Council (PRRAC), a Washington, D.C.-based national public interest organization founded in 1990. Poverty & Race in America includes works originally published between mid-2001 and 2005, many of which have been updated and revised. The contributors represent the best of progressive thought and activism on America's two most salient, and seemingly intractable, domestic problems-race and poverty. Divided into topical sections, this volume considers the issues of race, poverty, housing, education, health, and democracy. Poverty & Race in America is especially concerned with the links between and among these areas, both for purposes of analysis and policy prescriptions. Featuring a foreword by Congressman Jesse L. Jackson Jr., this edited collection will be of great interest to policy-makers and human rights activists and will hopefully stimulate creative thought and action to bring an end to racism and poverty.

Contents:

Race/Racism 1

Chapter 1 Whites Swim in Racial Preference / Tim Wise 3

Chapter 2 Diversity Over Justice / Eric Foner 7

Chapter 3 Remembrance and Change in Philadelphia, Mississippi / James W. Loewen 9

Chapter 4 Sundown Towns / James W. Loewen 15

Chapter 5 Minority Exclusion in Small Town America / James H. Johnson, Jr., Ann Moss Joyner, Allan Parnell 20

Chapter 6 Skewing Democracy: Where the Census Counts Prisoners / Peter Wagner 25

Chapter 7 Language as Oppression: The English-Only Movement in the United States / Andrew Hartman 29

Chapter 8 Apologies/Reparations 38

Chapter 9 Organizing for Reparations: Lessons from the Holocaust / Marc Masurovsky 43

Chapter 10 Race Literacy Quiz / Califonia Newsreel 49

Chapter 11 Reverse Discrimination Quiz / Fred L. Pincus 52

Poverty 55

Chapter 12 From Poverty to Social Exclusion: Lessons from Europe / Hilary Silver, S.M. Miller 57

Chapter 13 The Ethno/Racial Context of Poverty in Rural and Small Town America / Calvin L. Beale 71

Chapter 14 Concentration of Poverty Declined in the 1990s / Paul Jargowsky 79

Chapter 15 The Living Wage: A Progressive Movement in Action / Jared Bernstein, Jeff Chapman 82

Chapter 16 Children Get Social Security, Too / William E. Spriggs 89

Chapter 17 The Benefit Bank / Robert Brand 93

Chapter 18 Race, Poverty and Shared Wealth / Andrew T. Lamas 96

Chapter 19 Race, Poverty and the Estate Tax / Gary Bass, Ellen Taylor, Catherine Paskoff Chang, Adam Hughes 103

Chapter 20 Race, Poverty and "Economic Development" Gone Haywire / Greg LeRoy 111

Chapter 21 Poverty Quiz / Catholic Campaign for Human Development 116

Housing 119

Chapter 22 Why Housing Mobility? The Research Evidence Today / Margery Austin Turner, Dolores Acevedo-Garcia 121

Chapter 23 Racial Disparities in Housing and Health / Dolores Acevedo-Garcia, Theresa L. Osypuk 130

Chapter 24 A National Gautreaux Program: A Symposium / Alexander Polikoff, Paul L. Wachtel, John A. Powell, Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh, Sheryll Cashin, George Galster, Libby Perl, David Rusk 137

Chapter 25 The Power and Limits of Place: New Directions for Housing Mobility and Research on Neighborhoods / Xavier de Souza Briggs 168

Chapter 26 Democracy's Unfinished Business: Federal Policy and the Search for Fair Housing, 1961-68 / David M.P. Freund 173

Chapter 27 Some Lessons from Brown for the Fair Housing Movement / Philip Tegeler 178

Chapter 28 Race, Poverty and Homeowner Insurance / Gregory D. Squires 183

Chapter 29 The CLT Model: A Tool for Permanently Affordable Housing and Wealth Generation / Gus Newport 189

Chapter 30 Predatory Lending: Undermining Economic Progress in Communities of Color / Mike Calhoun, Nikitra Bailey 194

Chapter 31 Housing Quiz / California Newsreel 199

Education 201

Chapter 32 The O'Connor Project: Intervening Early to Eliminate the Need for Racial Preferences in Higher Education / Lisbeth B. Schorr 203

Chapter 33 Why Is School Reform So Hard? / Linda Christensen, Stan Karp 211

Chapter 34 Socioeconomic School Integration: A Symposium / Richard D. Kahlenberg, Gary Orfield, Theodore M. Shaw, Makani Themba-Nixon, John A. Powell, S.M. Miller, Thomas J. Henderson 215

Chapter 35 Schools and the Achievement Gap: A Symposium / Richard Rothstein, Pedro A. Noguera, John H. Jackson, Jenice L. View, Stan Karp, Wendy Puriefoy, Mark Simon, Krista Kafer, Dianne M. Piche, Tamar Ruth 241

Chapter 36 High Classroom Turnover: How Some Children Get Left Behind / Chester Hartman, Alison Leff 269

Chapter 37 Race, Poverty and Special Education: Apprenticeships for Prison Work / Rosa Smith 273

Chapter 38 Race, Poverty and Virtual Learning / Sharon Johnston, Michelle Kinley 278

Chapter 39 Race, Poverty and Residential Schools / Heidi Goldsmith 282

Chapter 40 Race, Poverty and Community Schools / Ira Harkavy, Martin J. Blank 288

Chapter 41 Education Quiz / Derrick Z. Jackson 296

Health 299

Chapter 42 What Works: A Fifty-Year Retrospective / David Barton Smith 301

Chapter 43 Why Is HHS Obscuring a Health Care Gap? / H. Jack Geiger 304

Chapter 44 Race, Poverty and New Strategies to Control the Obesity Epidemic / Anthony Robbins, Wendy E. Parmet, Richard Daynard 307

Chapter 45 The Contribution of Black-White Health Differences to the Academic Achievement Gap / Richard Rothstein, Tamara Wilder 311

Chapter 46 Eliminating the Slave Health Deficit: Using Reparations to Repair Black Health / Vernellia R. Randall 320

Chapter 47 Health Quiz I / Health Policy Institute 331

Chapter 48 Health Quiz II / David Barton Smith 334

Democracy 337

Chapter 49 From Slave Republic to Constitutional Democracy: The Continuing Struggle for the Right to Vote / Jamin Raskin 339

Chapter 50 Voting Right for Immigrants / Catherine Tactaquin 351

Chapter 51 Bringing American Democracy to America's Capital / DC Vote 357

Chapter 52 The Birth of the White Corporation / Jeffrey Kaplan 362

Chapter 53 Democracy Quiz / Peter Kellman 369

Chapter 54 Race, Poverty and Hunger / Alison Leff, Alexandra Cawthorne 373

Chapter 55 Race, Poverty and Youth Development / Carla Roach, Hanh Cao Yu, Heather Lewis-Charp 381

Chapter 56 Race Poverty and LGBT Youth / L. Michael Gipson 387

PRRAC Board of Directors and Social Science Advisory Board 419.

Notes:

"Articles and symposia from Poverty & race, the bimonthly newsletter journal of the Poverty & Race Research Action Council (PRRAC) ... originally published between mid-2001 and 2005, many of which have been revised and updated"--P. [4] of cover.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0739114182

0739114190

OCLC:

65191481

Publisher Number:

9780739114186

9780739114193