Poverty & race in America : the emerging agendas /

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

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

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: Poverty & Race Research Action Council.
Other Authors: Hartman, Chester W. (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Lanham, MD : Lexington Books, [2006]
Subjects:
Poverty > United States.
Racism > United States.
Minorities > United States > Economic conditions.
African Americans > Economic conditions.
Racism.
United States > Race relations.
Table of Contents:
  • Whites swim in racial preference / Tim Wise
  • Diversity over justice / Eric Foner
  • Remembrance and change in Philadelphia, Mississippi / James W. Loewen
  • Sundown towns / James W. Loewen
  • Minority exclusion in small town America / James H. Johnson, Jr., Ann Moss Joyner and Allan Parnell
  • Skewing democracy: where the census counts prisoners / Peter Wagner
  • Language as oppression: the English-only movement in the United States / Andrew Hartman
  • Apologies/reparations
  • Organizing for reparations: lessons from the Holocaust / Marc Masurovsky
  • Race literacy quiz / Califonia Newsreel
  • Reverse discrimination quiz / Fred L. Pincus
  • From poverty to social exclusion: lessons from Europe / Hilary Silver and S.M. Miller
  • The ethno/racial context of poverty in rural and small town America / Calvin L. Beale
  • Concentration of poverty declined in the 1990s / Paul Jargowsky
  • The living wage: a progressive movement in action / Jared Bernstein and Jeff Chapman
  • Children get Social Security, too / William E. Spriggs
  • The benefit bank / Robert Brand
  • Race, poverty and shared wealth / Andrew T. Lamas
  • Race, poverty and the estate tax / Gary Bass [and others]
  • Race, poverty and "economic development" gone haywire / Greg LeRoy
  • Poverty quiz / Catholic campaign for human development
  • Why housing mobility?: the research evidence today / Margery Austin Turner and Dolores Acevedo-Garcia
  • Racial disparities in housing and health / Dolores Acevedo-Garcia and Theresa L. Osypuk
  • A national Gautreaux program: a symposium / Alexander Polikoff [and others]
  • The power and limits of place: new directions for housing mobility and research on neighborhoods / Xavier de Souza Briggs
  • Democracy's unfinished business: federal policy and the search for fair housing, 1961-68 / David M.P. Freund
  • Some lessons from Brown for the fair housing movement / Philip Tegeler
  • Race, poverty and homeowner insurance / Gregory D. Squires
  • The CLT model: a tool for permanently affordable housing and wealth generation / Gus Newport
  • Predatory lending: undermining economic progress in communities of color / Mike Calhoun and Nikitra Bailey
  • Housing quiz / California Newsreel
  • The O'Connor project: intervening early to eliminate the need for racial preferences in higher education / Lisbeth B. Schorr
  • Why is school reform so hard? / Linde Christensen and Stan Karp
  • Socioeconomic school integration: a symposium / Richard D. Kahlenberg [and others]
  • Schools and the achievement gap: a symposium / Richard Rothstein [and others]
  • High classroom turnover: how some children get left behind / Chester Hartman and Alison Leff
  • Race, poverty and special education: apprenticeships for prison work / Rosa Smith
  • Race, poverty and virtual learning / Sharon Johnston and Michelle Kinley
  • Race, poverty and residential schools / Heidi Goldsmith
  • Race, poverty and community schools / Ira Harkavy and Martin J. Blank
  • Education quiz / Derrick Z. Jackson
  • What works: a fifty-year retrospective / David Barton Smith
  • Why is HHS obscuring a health care gap? / H. Jack Geiger
  • Race, poverty and new strategies to control the obesity epidemic / Anthony Robbins, Wendy E. Parmet and Richard Daynard
  • The contribution of black-white health differences to the academic achievement gap / Richard Rothstein and Tamara Wilder
  • Eliminating the slave health deficit: using reparations to repair black health / Vernellia R. Randall
  • Health quiz I / Health Policy Institute
  • Health quiz II / David Barton Smith
  • From slave republic to constitutional democracy : the continuing struggle for the right to vote / Jamin Raskin
  • Voting right for immigrants / Catherine Tactaquin
  • Bringing American democracy to America's capital / D.C. Vote
  • The birth of the white corporation / Jeffrey Kaplan
  • Democracy quiz / Peter Kellman
  • Race, poverty and hunger / Alison Leff and Alexandra Cawthorne
  • Race, poverty and youth development / Carla Roach, Hanh Cao Yu and Heather Lewis-Charp
  • Race poverty and LGBT youth / L. Michael Gipson.

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