America's Growing Inequality [electronic resource] : The Impact of Poverty and Race

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hartman, Chester.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Equality--United States.

Poverty--United States.

Social stratification--United States.

United States--Economic conditions.

United States--Race relations.

United States--Social conditions.

Local Subjects:

Equality--United States.

Poverty--United States.

Social stratification--United States.

United States--Economic conditions.

United States--Race relations.

United States--Social conditions.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (591 p.)

Other Title:

America's Growing Inequality

America’s Growing Inequality

Place of Publication:

Blue Ridge Summit : Lexington Books, 2014.

Summary:

<span><span style=""font-style:italic;"">America's Growing Inequality</span><span> presents the links between racism and poverty in the United States, highlighting the work of social justice organizations to facilitate an end to their presence in society. The facts, analyses, and policy proposals that comprise this book will inform scholars and students in a range of disciplines including sociology, social work, urban planning, and economics.</span></span>

Contents:

""Tribal Self-Government in the United States""""When Affirmative Action Was White""; ""The Importance of Targeted Universalism""; ""Implicit Bias: A Forum""; ""Tax Aversion: The Legacy of Slavery""; ""Tax Aversion: The Sequel""; ""Scapegoating Blacks for the Economic Crisis""; ""Speculators, Not CRA, Behind Foreclosures in Black Neighborhoods""; ""Missing Class: The Near Poor""; ""Criminalization of Poverty: UN Report""; ""Can We Think about Poverty without Thinking about Criminality?""; ""The Criminalization of Homelessness""; ""Can We Organize for Economic Justice Beyond Capitalism?""

""Beyond Public/Private: Understanding Corporate Power""""The Help""; ""Reshaping the Social Contract: Demographic Distance and Our Fiscal Future""; ""Social Justice Movements in a Liminal Age""; ""Part II. DECONSTRUCTING POVERTYAND RACIAL INEQUALITY""; ""The Spirit Level: Why Greater Equality Makes Societies Stronger""; ""Why Racial Integration Remains an Imperative""; ""Building a National Museum""; ""How White Activists Embrace Racial Justice""; ""Ending/Reducing Poverty: A Forum""; ""Unions Make Us Strong""; ""A Freedom Budget for All Americans""

""The Kerner Commission: Remembering, Forgetting and Truth-Telling""""How Seattle and King County Are Tackling Institutional Inequities""; ""One Nation Indivisible: Just Cause�Causa Justa: Multiracial Movement-Building for Housing Rights""; ""The Opportunity Impact Statement""; ""The International Year for People of African Descent""; ""Count Them One by One: Black Mississippians Fighting for the Right to Vote""; ""Why Are African Americans and Latinos Underrepresented Among Recipients of Unemployment Insurance and What Should We Do About It?""; ""The Cobell Trust Land Lawsuit""

""The Social Science Evidence on the Effects of Diversity in K-12 Schools""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

0-7391-9172-1

OCLC:

876592624