Challenges to Equality: Poverty and Race in America

by Jean M Hartman, John Lewis

Overview

Artioles and symposia on major controversial social issues: integration and civil rights; President Clinton's recent race initiative; poverty; education; the environment; democratic participation; disability rights; corporate welfare; and others. The range of contributors is wide, and includes Julian Bond, Herbert Gans, James Loewen, Jonathan Kozol, Manning Marable, Howard Zinn, Benjamin DeMott, Frances Fox Piven, and Marian Wright Edelman.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781315291550
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	09/16/2016
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	336
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Chester Hartman

Table of Contents

Part 1 Integration; Chapter 1 Civil Rights, Now and Then, Julian Bond; Chapter 2 Wake Up, Jared Taylor! America is a Democracy Now!, Howard Winant; Chapter 3 Digging Out of the White Trap, Marian (Meek) Groot, Paul Marcus; Chapter 4 Response, Chip Berlet, Surina Khan; Chapter 5 Race and Space, John a. powell; Chapter 6 Telling History on the Landscape, James W. Loewen; Chapter 7 Don't Know Much About History.... Quiz, James W. Loewen; Chapter 8 Bilingual Education, Bebe Moore Campbell; Part 2 Symposium; Chapter 9 By the Color of Our Skin: The Illusion of Integration and the Reality of Race, Leonard Steinhorn, Barbara Diggs-Brown; Part 3 Commentaries; Chapter 10 The Politics of Equality, Jerome Scott, Walda Katz-Fishman; Chapter 11 Equality Versus Integration, Herbert J. Gans; Chapter 12 Viable Integration Must Reject the Ideology of Assimilationism, John O. Calmore; Chapter 13 A Wake-Up Call for Liberals, Richard D. Kahlenberg; Chapter 14 Now We Are Engaged in a Great Civil War, Testing Whether That Nation, Or Any Nation So Conceived and So Dedicated, Can Long Endure, Howard Winant; Chapter 15 The Morally Lazy White Middle Class, Robert Jensen; Chapter 16 Today's Integration Challenge, Angela E. Oh; Chapter 17 Half Full? Half Empty?, James W. Loewen; Chapter 18 Needed: An Antiwhite Movement, Noel Ignatiev; Chapter 19 Is Integration Possible? Of Course..., Florence Wagman Roisman; Chapter 20 What Is the Question? Integration or Defeat of Racism?, James Early; Chapter 21 Education and Incentives to Actualize Integration, Don DeMarco; Chapter 22 Should Racial Integration Be Pursued As the Only Goal?, Joe Feagin, Yvonne Combs; Chapter 23 Progress in Integration Has Been Made, George C. Galster; Chapter 24 Unillusioned, S.M. Miller; Chapter 25 Keeping the Dream, William L. Taylor; Chapter 26 No One Even Knows What Integration Is, John Woodford; Chapter 27 We Aspire to Integration and Practice Pluralism, Frank H. Wu; Chapter 28 Integration: The Long Hard Road to the Right Destination, Paul L. Wachtel; Chapter 29 The Politics of Perception, Ty dePass; Chapter 30 Response to Is Integration Possible? Symposium, Leonard Steinhorn; Part 2a Poverty; Chapter 31 Economic Growth and Poverty: Lessons from the 1980s and 1990s, Jared Bernstein; Chapter 32 Welfare Reform and Racial/Ethnic Minorities: The Questions to Ask, Steve Savner; Chapter 33 The Outcomes of Welfare Reform for Women, Barbara Gault, Annisah Um'rani; Chapter 34 America's Fifth Child: It's Time To End Child Poverty in America, Marian Wright Edelman; Chapter 35 Wealth, Success, and Poverty in Indian Country, D. Bambi Kraus; Chapter 36 Race and Poverty in the Rural South, Margaret Walsh, Cynthia M. Duncan; Chapter 37 Poverty, Racial Discrimination, and the Family Farm, Stephen Carpenter; Part 3a Education; Chapter 38 The Growing Education Gap, Kati Haycock; Part 6 Symposium; Chapter 39 A Case Could Be Made on Either Side, Phyllis Hart, Joyce Germaine Watts; Chapter 40 Forced Racial Integration Has Produced Poor Results, Lyman Ho; Chapter 41 Upgrade Education in Schools Serving Poor and Minority Children, Kati Haycock; Chapter 42 Integration Is Not Cultural Assimilation, john a. powell; Chapter 43 All Students Are Not Equal, Sheryl Denbo, Byron Williams; Chapter 44 Separation, Then Integration, Marcelitte Failia; Part 7 Symposium; Chapter 45 The Standards Movement: Another Warning, John Cawthorne; Chapter 46 The Standards Movement in Education: A Part of Systemic Reform, Peter Negroni; Chapter 47 Standards or Standardization?, William Ayers; Chapter 48 Without Good Assessment, Standards Will Fail, Monty Neill; Chapter 49 High-Stakes Testing: Potential Consequences for Students of Color, English-Language Learners, and Students with Disabilities, Jay P. Heubert; Chapter 50 The Education Vision: A Third Tier, S.M. Miller; Part 4 Democratic Participation; Chapter 51 Why Not Democracy?, David Kairys; Chapter 52 New Means for Political Empowerment: Proportional Voting, Douglas J. Amy, Fred McBride, Robert Richie; Chapter 53 Race, Poverty, and the Wealth Primary, Jamin B. Raskin; Part 9 Commentaries; Chapter 54 Operating Most Effectively Under the Current System, Ellen Malcolm; Chapter 55 We've Closed Down; Chapter 56 Not the Rich, More Than the Poor: Poverty, Race, and Campaign Finance Reform, John C. Bonifaz; Chapter 57 I Am a Product of The Voting Rights Act!, Cynthia A. McKinney; Part 5 Enviromental Justice; Chapter 58 Race, Poverty, and Sustainable Communities, Carl Anthony; Chapter 59 Race and Poverty Data as a Tool in the Struggle for Environmental Justice, Kary L. Moss; Chapter 60 Analysis of Racially Disparate Impacts in the Siting of Environmental Hazards, Thomas J. Henderson, David S. Bailey, Selena Mendy Singleton; Chapter 61 The Streets, the Courts, the Legislature, and the Press: Where Environmental Struggles Happen, Rachel Godsil; Chapter 62 The Truth Won't Set You Free (But It Might Make the Evening News): The Use of Demographic Information in Struggles for Environmental Justice in California, Luke W. Cole; Chapter 63 Key Research and Policy Issues Facing Environmental Justice, Bunyan Bryant; Part 6a Race, Poverty, and...; Chapter 64 Race, Poverty, and the Two-Tiered Financial Services System, Robert D. Manning; Chapter 65 Race, Poverty, and Transportation, Rich Stolz; Chapter 66 Race, Poverty, and Corporate Welfare, Greg LeRoy; Chapter 67 Race, Poverty, and the Militarized Welfare State, Bristow Hardin; Chapter 68 Race, Poverty, and the Federal Reserve System, Tom Schlesinger; Chapter 69 Race, Poverty, and Social Security, john a. powell; Chapter 70 Race, Poverty, and Immigration, Arnoldo Garcia; Chapter 71 Race, Poverty, and Globalization, john a. powell, S.P. Udayakumar; Part 7a President Clinton's Initiative on Race; Chapter 72 Notes on the President's Initiative on Race, Chester Hartman; Chapter 73 The Speech President Clinton Should Have Made, Howard Winant; Part 13 Symposium; Chapter 74 Public Education, Policy Initiatives, Paradigm Shift, Raúl Yzaguirre; Chapter 75 Needed: An Educational Bible, Marcus Raskin; Chapter 76 Plessy v. Ferguson Lives, Jonathan Kozol; Chapter 77 Acknowledge, Understand White-Skin Privilege, Julian Bond; Chapter 78 An Action Agenda, Hugh Price; Chapter 79 Focus on the Institutional Barriers, Manning Marable; Chapter 80 Knitting the Nation, S.M. Miller; Chapter 81 A Ten-Point Plan, Peter Dreier; Chapter 82 Needed: A Focus on the Intersection of Race and Poverty, Peter Edelman; Chapter 83 Conversation Is Far from the Central Issue, Howard Zinn; Chapter 84 If Not Action on Race, Then Straight Talk, Herbert J. Gans; Chapter 85 Fantasy Moral Capital, Benjamin DeMott; Chapter 86 Escaping Clinton's Control, Frances Fox Piven; Chapter 87... And Interracial Justice For All, Michael Omi; Chapter 88 First Peoples First, Lillian Wilmore; Chapter 89 Conversation Doesn't Pay the Rent, William L. Taylor; Chapter 90 Spotlight Bigotry's Covert Expression, David K. Shipler; Chapter 91 A Lesson Plan for Thinking and Talking About Race, Theodore M. Shaw; Part 14 Symposium; Chapter 92 Neither Praise Nor Burial, S.M. Miller; Chapter 93 Where Is the Declaration of War?, Bill Ong Hing; Chapter 94 Not a Word of Criticism of Clinton, Clarence Lusane; Chapter 95 No Surprises, Frances Fox Piven; Chapter 96 Native Nations Won't Rally Around One Nation Concept, Lillian Wilmore; Chapter 97 One America Needs To Be More Than a Nice Slogan, Frank H. Wu; Chapter 98 Politainment and an Extended Renaissance Weekend, Marcus Raskin; Chapter 99 One America—To What Ends?, Sam Husseini; Chapter 100 There's No Racial Justice Without Economic Justice, Peter Dreier;