America&#039;s Growing Inequality

Chester Hartman

doi:10.5771/9780739191729

Summary

The book is a compilation of the best and still-most-relevant articles published in Poverty & Race, the bimonthly of The Poverty & Race Research Action Council from 2006 to the present. Authors are some of the leading figures in a range of activities around these themes. It is the fourth such book PRRAC has published over the years, each with a high-visibility foreword writer: Rep. John Lewis, Rep. Jesse Jackson, Jr. Bill Bradley, Julian Bond in previous books, Rep. Luis Gutierrez of Chicago for this book. The chapters are organized into four sections: Race & Poverty: The Structural Underpinnings; Deconstructing Poverty and Racial Inequities; Re(emerging) Issues; Civil Rights History.

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Copyright year: 2014
ISBN-Print: 978-0-7391-9171-2
ISBN-Online: 978-0-7391-9172-9
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 574
Product type: Edited Book

1. Contents No access
2. Foreword No access
3. Introduction No access
1. Toward a Structural Racism Framework No access
2. Structural Racism: Focusing on the Cause No access
3. American Indian Tribes and Structural Racism No access
4. Structural Racism and Rebuilding New Orleans No access
5. Race vis-à-vis Class in the U.S.? No access
6. More Than Just Race: Being Black and Poor in the Inner City No access
7. Tensions Among Minority Groups No access
8. Indigenous Peoples: Response to the Periodic Report of the United States to the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination No access
9. Tribal Self-Government in the United States No access
10. When Affirmative Action Was White No access
11. The Importance of Targeted Universalism No access
12. Implicit Bias: A Forum No access
13. Tax Aversion: The Legacy of Slavery No access
14. Tax Aversion: The Sequel No access
15. Scapegoating Blacks for the Economic Crisis No access
16. Speculators, Not CRA, Behind Foreclosures in Black Neighborhoods No access
17. Missing Class: The Near Poor No access
18. Criminalization of Poverty: UN Report No access
19. Can We Think about Poverty without Thinking about Criminality? No access
20. The Criminalization of Homelessness No access
21. Can We Organize for Economic Justice Beyond Capitalism? No access
22. Beyond Public/Private: Understanding Corporate Power No access
23. The Help No access
24. Reshaping the Social Contract: Demographic Distance and Our Fiscal Future No access
25. Social Justice Movements in a Liminal Age No access
1. The Spirit Level: Why Greater Equality Makes Societies Stronger No access
2. Why Racial Integration Remains an Imperative No access
3. Building a National Museum No access
4. How White Activists Embrace Racial Justice No access
5. Ending/Reducing Poverty: A Forum No access
6. Unions Make Us Strong No access
7. A Freedom Budget for All Americans No access
8. The Kerner Commission: Remembering, Forgetting and Truth-Telling No access
9. How Seattle and King County Are Tackling Institutional Inequities No access
10. One Nation Indivisible: Just Cause—Causa Justa: Multiracial Movement-Building for Housing Rights No access
11. The Opportunity Impact Statement No access
12. The International Year for People of African Descent No access
13. Count Them One by One: Black Mississippians Fighting for the Right to Vote No access
14. Why Are African Americans and Latinos Underrepresented Among Recipients of Unemployment Insurance and What Should We Do About It? No access
15. The Cobell Trust Land Lawsuit No access
16. Truth and Reconciliation in Greensboro, North Carolina: A Paradigm for Social Transformation No access
17. Greensboro Truth & Reconciliation Commission No access
18. Apologies/Reparations, 2003–2011 No access
19. Apology for Slavery (H.Res. 194) No access
20. Joint Resolution of Apology to Native People No access
1. The Seattle/Louisville Decision and the Future of Race-Conscious Programs No access
2. Separate ≠ Equal: Mexican Americans Before Brown v. Board No access
3. Segregation and Exposure to High-Poverty Schools in Large Metropolitan Areas, 2008–2009 No access
4. The Social Science Evidence on the Effects of Diversity in K-12 Schools No access
5. How Colleges and Universities Can Promote K-12 Diversity: A Modest Proposal No access
6. When the Feds Won’t Act: School Desegregation, State Courts, and Minnesota’s The Choice is Yours Program No access
7. Reaffirming the Role of School Integration in K-12 Education Policy No access
8. Middle-Income Peers As Educational Resources and the Constitutional Right to Equal Access No access
9. Community-Based Accountability: Best Practices for School Officials No access
10. The Role of Teacher Union Locals in Advancing Racial Justice and Improving the Quality of Schooling in the United States No access
11. American Indian Boarding Schools No access
12. Affirmative Furthering of Fair Housing: The 21st Century Challenge No access
13. Race and Public Housing: Revisiting the Federal Role No access
14. Integration and Housing Choice: A Dialogue No access
15. What Are We Holding Our Public Schools Accountable For? The Gap Between What is Measured and Whatis Needed to Prepare Children for an Increasingly Diverse Society No access
16. The Goal of Inclusive, Diverse Communities: Introduction to the Final Report of the National Commission on Fair Housing andEqual Opportunity No access
17. Lessons from Mount Laurel: The Benefits of Affordable Housing for All Concerned No access
18. Housing America’s Native People No access
19. No Home in Indian Country No access
20. Mossville, Louisiana: A Community’s Fight for the Human Right to a Healthy Environment No access
21. Understanding Health Impact Assessment: A Tool for Addressing Health Disparities No access
22. Health Equity for Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Children and Youth: What’s RacismGot to Do With It? No access
23. Neighborhood—The Smallest Unit of Health: A Health Center Model for Pacific Islander and Asian Health No access
24. Healthcare and Indigenous Peoples in the United States No access
25. Race, Poverty and Incarceration No access
26. A Strategy for Dismantling Structural Racism in the Juvenile Justice System No access
27. Native Americans and Juvenile Justice: A Hidden Tragedy No access
28. National Statement to Support Human and Civil Rights for All Immigrants and to Oppose CompromiseImmigration Reform Proposal No access
29. 21st Century Gateways: Immigrants in Suburban America No access
30. Natural Allies or Irreconcilable Foes? Reflections on African-American/Immigrant Relations No access
31. Transportation and Civil Rights No access
32. Right to the City: Social Movement and Theory No access
1. Bayard Rustin and the Civil Rights Movement No access
2. A Civil Right to Organize No access
3. Local People as Law Shapers: Lessons from Atlanta’s Civil Rights Movement No access
4. Freedom Riders No access
5. The Chicago Freedom Movement 40 Years Later: A Symposium No access
6. The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee Gathers 50 Years After It Started: A Report on the Reunion No access
7. The Other Side of Immigration: Humane, Sensible and Replicable Responses in a Changing Nation No access
8. PRRAC Board of Directors and Social Science Advisory Board—Current and Former Member s No access
Index No access Pages 541 - 558
The Contributors No access Pages 559 - 574