America's Growing Inequality

The Impact of Poverty and Race

Chester Hartman

• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Year: 2014
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9780739191729
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: American Government
• Index: Politics & International Relations

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.

Table of contents

• Contents
• Foreword
• Introduction
• Part I: Racism and Poverty: The Structural 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
• When Affirmative Action Was White
• The 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
• The 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
• Reshaping the Social Contract: Demographic Distance and Our Fiscal Future
• Social Justice Movements in a Liminal Age
• Part II: Deconstructing Poverty and 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
• One Nation Indivisible: Just Cause—Causa Justa: Multiracial Movement-Building for Housing Rights
• The 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
• 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
• Reaffirming the Role of School Integration in K-12 Education Policy
• Middle-Income Peers As Educational Resources and the Constitutional Right to Equal Access
• Community-Based Accountability: Best Practices for School Officials
• The Role of Teacher Union Locals in Advancing Racial Justice and Improving the Quality of Schooling in the United States
• American Indian Boarding Schools
• Affirmative Furthering of Fair Housing: The 21st Century Challenge
• Race and Public Housing: Revisiting the Federal Role
• Integration and Housing Choice: A Dialogue
• What Are We Holding Our Public Schools Accountable For? The Gap Between What is Measured and What is Needed to Prepare Children for an Increasingly Diverse Society
• The Goal of Inclusive, Diverse Communities: Introduction to the Final Report of the National Commission on Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity
• Lessons from Mount Laurel: The Benefits of Affordable Housing for All Concerned
• Housing America’s Native People
• No Home in Indian Country
• Mossville, Louisiana: A Community’s Fight for the Human Right to a Healthy Environment
• Understanding Health Impact Assessment: A Tool for Addressing Health Disparities
• Health Equity for Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Children and Youth: What’s Racism Got to Do With It?
• Neighborhood—The Smallest Unit of Health: A Health Center Model for Pacific Islander and Asian Health
• Healthcare and Indigenous Peoples in the United States
• Race, Poverty and Incarceration
• A Strategy for Dismantling Structural Racism in the Juvenile Justice System
• Native Americans and Juvenile Justice: A Hidden Tragedy
• National Statement to Support Human and Civil Rights for All Immigrants and to Oppose Compromise Immigration Reform Proposal
• 21st Century Gateways: Immigrants in Suburban America
• Natural Allies or Irreconcilable Foes? Reflections on African-American/Immigrant Relations
• Transportation and Civil Rights
• Right to the City: Social Movement and Theory
• Part IV: Civil Rights History
• Bayard Rustin and the Civil Rights Movement
• A Civil Right to Organize
• Local People as Law Shapers: Lessons from Atlanta’s Civil Rights Movement
• Freedom Riders
• The Chicago Freedom Movement 40 Years Later: A Symposium
• The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee Gathers 50 Years After It Started: A Report on the Reunion
• The Other Side of Immigration: Humane, Sensible and Replicable Responses in a Changing Nation
• PRRAC Board of Directors and Social Science Advisory Board—Current and Former Members
• The Contributors