Poverty & Race in America

The Emerging Agendas
Herausgeber: Hartman, Chester

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 458
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Februar 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 31mm
• Gewicht: 889g
• ISBN-13: 9780739114186
• ISBN-10: 0739114182
• Artikelnr.: 21236538

Autorenporträt

Chester Hartman is Director of Research at the Poverty & Race Research Action Council.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Foreword
Chapter 2 Editor's Introduction
Part 3 Race/Racism
Chapter 4 Whites Swim in Racial Preference
Chapter 5 Diversity Over Justice
Chapter 6 Remembrance and Change in Philadelphia, Mississippi
Chapter 7 Minority Exclusion in Small Town America
Chapter 8 Skewing Democracy: Where the Census Counts Prisoners
Chapter 9 Language as Oppression: The English-Only Movement in the United
States
Chapter 10 Apologies/Reparations
Chapter 11 Organizing for Reparations: Lessons from the Holocaust
Chapter 12 Race Literacy Quiz
Chapter 13 Reverse Discrimination Quiz
Part 14 Poverty
Chapter 15 From Poverty to Social Exclusion: Lessons from Europe
Chapter 16 The Ethno/Racial Context of Povery in Rural and Small Town
America
Chapter 17 Concentration of Poverty Declines in the 1990s
Chapter 18 The Living Wage: A Progressive Movement in Action
Chapter 19 Children Get Social Security, Too
Chapter 20 The Benefit Bank
Chapter 21 Race, Poverty and Shared Wealth
Chapter 22 Race, Poverty and the Estate Tax
Chapter 23 Race, Poverty and 'Economic Development' Gone Haywire
Chapter 24 Poverty Quiz
Part 25 Housing
Chapter 26 Why Housing Mobility? The Research Evidence Today
Chapter 27 Racial Disparities in Housing and Health
Chapter 28 A National Gautreaux Program: A Symposium
Chapter 29 The Power and Limits of Place: New Directions for Housing
Mobility and Research on Neighborhoods
Chapter 30 Democracy's Unfinished Business: Federal Policy and the Search
for Fair Housing, 1961-1968
Chapter 31 Some Lessons fromBrown for the Fair Housing Movement
Chapter 32 Race, Poverty and the Homeowner Insurance
Chapter 33 The CLT Model: A Tool for Permanently Affordable Housing and
Wealth Generation
Chapter 34 Predatory Lending: Undermining Economic Progress in Communities
of Color
Chapter 35 Housing Quiz
Part 36 Education
Chapter 37 The O'Conner Project: Intervening Early to Eliminate the Need
for Racial Preferences in Higher Education
Chapter 38 Why Is School Reform So Hard?
Chapter 39 Socioeconomic School Integration: A Symposium
Chapter 40 Schools and the Achievement Gap: A Symposium
Chapter 41 High Classroom Turnover: How Some Children Get Left Behind
Chapter 42 Race, Poverty and Special Education: Apprenticeships for Prison
Work
Chapter 43 Race, Poverty and Virtual Learning
Chapter 44 Race, Poverty, and Residential Schools
Chapter 45 Race, Poverty and Community Schools
Chapter 46 Education Quiz
Part 47 Health
Chapter 48 What Works: A Fifty-Year Retrospective
Chapter 49 Why is HHS Obscuring a Heath Care Gap?
Chapter 50 Race, Poverty and New Strategies to Control the Obesity Epidemic
Chapter 51 The Contribution of Black-White Health Differences to the
Academic Achievement Gap
Chapter 52 Eliminating the Slave Health Deficit: Using Reparations to
Repair Black Heath
Chapter 53 Health Quiz I
Chapter 54 Health Quiz II
Part 55 Democracy
Chapter 56 From Slave Republic to Constitutional Democracy: The Continuing
Struggle for the Right to Vote
Chapter 57 Voting Rights for Immigrants
Chapter 58 Bringing American Democracy to America's Capital
Chapter 59 The Birth of the White Corporation
Chapter 60 Democracy Quiz
Part 61 Miscellaneous
Chapter 62 Race, Poverty and Hunger
Chapter 63 Race, Poverty and Youth Development
Chapter 64 Race, Poverty and the LGBT Youth
Chapter 65 Quiz Answers