America's Growing Inequality
The Impact of Poverty and Race
1st Edition
Published on 2. April 2014
1 pages
978-1-9787-5497-3 (ISBN)
Description
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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Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Target group
Professional and scholarly
ISBN-13
978-1-9787-5497-3 (9781978754973)
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Content
Foreword by Congressman Luis Gutierrez
Introduction, Chester Hartman
I. Racism and Poverty: The Structural Underpinnings
Toward a Structural Racism Framework
Andrew Grant-Thomas & john a. powell
Structural Racism: Focusing on the Cause
Cliff Schrupp
American Indian Tribes and Structural Racism
Sherry Salway Black
Structural Racism and Rebuilding New Orleans
Maya Wiley
Race vis-à-vis Class in the U.S.?
john a. powell & Stephen Menendian
More Than Just Race: Being Black and Poor in the Inner City
William Julius Wilson
Tensions Among Minority Groups
Symposium with S.M. Miller, Wade Henderson, Don T. Nakanishi, john a. powell, Maria Blanco, Howard Winant
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
John Dossett
When Affirmative Action Was White
Ira Katznelson
The Importance of Targeted Universalism
john a. powell, S
Introduction, Chester Hartman
I. Racism and Poverty: The Structural Underpinnings
Toward a Structural Racism Framework
Andrew Grant-Thomas & john a. powell
Structural Racism: Focusing on the Cause
Cliff Schrupp
American Indian Tribes and Structural Racism
Sherry Salway Black
Structural Racism and Rebuilding New Orleans
Maya Wiley
Race vis-à-vis Class in the U.S.?
john a. powell & Stephen Menendian
More Than Just Race: Being Black and Poor in the Inner City
William Julius Wilson
Tensions Among Minority Groups
Symposium with S.M. Miller, Wade Henderson, Don T. Nakanishi, john a. powell, Maria Blanco, Howard Winant
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
John Dossett
When Affirmative Action Was White
Ira Katznelson
The Importance of Targeted Universalism
john a. powell, S
