ISBN:
9780739191712
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (591 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Parallel Title:
Print version America’s Growing Inequality : The Impact of Poverty and Race
DDC:
305.800973
Keywords:
Social stratification - United States
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Electronic books
Abstract:
〈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〉
Description / Table of Contents:
Contents; Foreword; Introduction; Part I. RACISM AND POVERTY: THESTRUCTURAL UNDERPINNINGS; Toward a Structural Racism Framework; Structural Racism: Focusing on the Cause; American Indian Tribes and Structural Racism; Structural Racism and Rebuilding New Orleans; Race vis-à-vis Class in the U.S.?; More Than Just Race: Being Black and Poor in the Inner City; Tensions Among Minority Groups; Indigenous Peoples: Response to the Periodic Report of the United States to the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination; Tribal Self-Government in the United States
Description / Table of Contents:
When Affirmative Action Was WhiteThe 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
Description / Table of Contents:
Reshaping the Social Contract: Demographic Distance and Our Fiscal FutureSocial 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
Description / Table of Contents:
One Nation Indivisible: Just Cause-Causa Justa: Multiracial Movement-Building for Housing RightsThe 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; Truth and Reconciliation in Greensboro, North Carolina: A Paradigm for Social Transformation; Greensboro Truth & Reconciliation Commission; Apologies/Reparations, 2003-2011
Description / Table of Contents:
Apology for Slavery (H.Res. 194)Joint Resolution of Apology to Native People; Part III.(RE)EMERGING ISSUES; The Seattle/Louisville Decision and the Future of Race-Conscious Programs; Separate ≠ Equal: Mexican Americans Before Brown v. Board; Segregation and Exposure to High-Poverty Schools in Large Metropolitan Areas, 2008-2009; The Social Science Evidence on the Effects of Diversity in K-12 Schools; How Colleges and Universities Can Promote K-12 Diversity: A Modest Proposal; When the Feds Won't Act: School Desegregation, State Courts, and Minnesota's The Choice is Yours Program
Description / Table of Contents:
Reaffirming the Role of School Integration in K-12 Education Policy
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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