Poverty & Race in America

The Emerging Agendas
Herausgeber: Hartman, Chester

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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: 1. Januar 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 738g
• ISBN-13: 9780739114193
• ISBN-10: 0739114190
• Artikelnr.: 22073155

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