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<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> |
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Toward a Structural Racism Framework / Chester Hartman -- Structural Racism: Focusing on the Cause / Andrew Grant-Thomas / John A. Powell -- American Indian Tribes and Structural Racism / Cliff Schrupp -- Structural Racism and Rebuilding New Orleans / Sherry Salway Black -- Race vis-à-vis Class in the U.S.? / Maya Wiley -- More Than Just Race: Being Black and Poor in the Inner City / John A. Powell / Stephen Menendian -- Tensions Among Minority Groups / William Julius Wilson -- Indigenous Peoples: Response to the Periodic Report of the United States to the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination / S.M. Miller / Wade Henderson / Don T. Nakanishi / John A. Powell / Maria Blanco / Howard Winant -- Tribal Self-Government in the United States / S.M. Miller / Wade Henderson / Don T. Nakanishi / John A. Powell / Maria Blanco / Howard Winant -- When Affirmative Action Was White / John Dossett |
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The Importance of Targeted Universalism / Ira Katznelson -- Implicit Bias: A Forum / John A. Powel / Stephen Menendian / Jason Reece -- eds. Intro pars / John A. Powel / Stephen Menendian / Jason Reece -- Does Unconscious Bias Matter? / John A. Powel / Stephen Menendian / Jason Reece -- Implicit Bias Insights as Preconditions to Structural Change / Ralph Richard Banks / Richard Thompson Ford -- Litigating Implicit Bias / John A. Powell / Rachel Godsil -- Implicit Bias, Racial Inequality and Our Multivariate World / Eva Paterson -- Beyond Bias / Andrew Grant-Thomas -- Banks & Ford Response / Olati Johnson -- Tax Aversion: The Legacy of Slavery / Olati Johnson -- Tax Aversion: The Sequel / Robin Einhorn -- Scapegoating Blacks for the Economic Crisis / Robin Einhorn -- Speculators, Not CRA, Behind Foreclosures in Black Neighborhoods / Gregory D. Squires -- The Missing Class: The Near Poor / John I. Gilderbloom / Gregory D. Squires |
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Criminalization of Poverty: UN Report / Victor Tan Chen / Katherine S. Newman -- Can We Think about Poverty without Thinking about Criminality? / Victor Tan Chen / Katherine S. Newman -- The Criminalization of Homelessness / National Law Center on Homelessness & Poverty / Kaaryn Gustafson -- Can We Organize for Economic Justice Beyond Capitalism? / Kaaryn Gustafson -- Beyond Public/Private: Understanding Corporate Power / LeeAnn Hall / Danny HoSang -- The Help / Association of Black Women Historians / John A. Powell / Stephen Menendian -- Reshaping the Social Contract: Demographic Distance and Our Fiscal Future / Ida E. Jones / Daina Ramey Berry / Tiffany M. Gill / Kali Nicole Gross / Janice Sumler-Edmond -- Social Justice Movements in a Liminal Age / Manuel Pastor / Vanessa Carter -- The Spirit Level: Why Greater Equality Makes Societies Stronger / Deepak Bhargava -- Why Racial Integration Remains an Imperative / Richard Wilkinson / Kate Pickett |
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Building a National Museum / Elizabeth Anderson -- How White Activists Embrace Racial Justice / Lonnie G. Bunch III -- Ending/Reducing Poverty: A Forum / Mark R. Warren -- Unions Make Us Strong / Christopher Howard / Herbert J. Gans / David K. Shipler / Mtangulizi Sanyika / William E. Spriggs / Margy Waller / Jill Cunningham / Michael R. Wenger -- A Freedom Budget for all Americans / Julius G. Getman -- The Kerner Commission: Remembering, Forgetting and Truth-Telling / Chester Hartman -- How Seattle and King County Are Tackling Institutional Inequities / Bruce R. Thomas -- One Nation Indivisible: Just Cause-Causa Justa Multiracial Movement-Building for Housing Rights / Julie Nelson / Matias Valenzuela / Sandy Ciske / Glenn Harris -- The Opportunity Impact Statement / The Opportunity Agenda / Dawn Phillips / Maria Poblet -- The International Year for People of African Descent / Dawn Phillips / Maria Poblet |
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Count Them One by One: Black Mississippians Fighting for the Right to Vote / Richard Clarke -- Why Are African Americans and Latinos Underrepresented Among Recipients of Unemployment Insurance and What Should We Do About It? / Gordon A. Martin Jr -- The Cobell Trust Land Lawsuit / Andrew Grant-Thomas -- Truth and Reconciliation in Greensboro, North Carolina: A Paradigm for Social Transformation / Justin Guiltier -- Greensboro Truth & Reconciliation Commission / Signe Waller / Marty Nathan -- Apologies/Reparations, 2003-2011 / Signe Waller / Marty Nathan -- Apology for Slavery (H. Res. 194) / Signe Waller / Marty Nathan -- Joint Resolution of Apology to Native People / Signe Waller / Marty Nathan -- The Seattle/Louisville Decision and the Future of Race-Conscious Programs / John Dossett -- Separate not Equal: Mexican Americans Before Brown v. Board / Philip Tegeler |
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Segregation and Exposure to High-Poverty Schools in Large Metropolitan Areas, 2008-2009 / Philippa Strum -- The Social Science Evidence on the Effects of Diversity in K-12 Schools / Nancy McArdle / Dolores Acevedo-Garcia / Theresa Osypuk -- How Colleges and Universities Can Promote K-12 Diversity: A Modest Proposal / Roslyn Arlin Mickelson -- Commentaries by Pedro Noguera / Julius Chambers / William Tobin / John Charles Boger -- When the Feds Won't Act: School Desegregation, State Courtsand Minnesota's The Choice is Yours Program / John A. Powell / William L. Taylor / Jenice L. View / Richard D. Kahlenberg / Wendy Puriefoy -- Reaffirming the Role of School Integration in K-12 Education Policy, Post-Conference Statement: An Urgent Need for Federal Support / National Coalition on School Diversity / Baris Gumus-Dawes / Myron Orfield |
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Middle-Income Peers As Educational Resources and the Constitutional, Right to Equal Access / Baris Gumus-Dawes / Myron Orfield -- Community-Based Accountability: Best Practices for School Officials / Derek W. Black -- The Role of Teacher Union Locals in Advancing Racial Justice and Improving the Quality of Schooling in the United States / Jason Langberg / Eldrin Deas / Taiyyaba Qureshi -- American Indian Boarding Schools / Mark Simon -- Affirmative Furthering of Fair Housing: The 21st Century Challenge / Mark Simon -- Race and Public Housing: Revisiting the Federal Role / Rob Breymaier -- Integration and Housing Choice: A Dialogue / Richard Rothstein -- 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 / Camille Zubrinsky Charles / Maria Krysan / Ingrid Gould Ellen |
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The Goal of Inclusive, Diverse Communities: Introduction to the Final Report of the National Commission on Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity / Amy Stuart Wells -- Lessons from Mount Laurel: The Benefits of Affordable Housing for All Concerned / Amy Stuart Wells -- Housing America's Native People / Douglas S. Massey -- No Home in Indian Country / Wendy L. Helgemo -- Mossville, Louisiana: A Community's Fight for the Human Right to a Healthy Environment / Janeen Comenote -- Understanding Health Impact Assessment: A Tool for Addressing Health Disparities / Michele Roberts -- Health Equity for Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Children and Youth: What's Racism Got to Do With It? / Jonathan Heller / Saneta De Vuono-Powell -- Neighborhood-The Smallest Unit of Health: A Health Center Model for Pacific Islander and Asian Health / Laurin Mayeno / Joseph Keawe'aimoku Kahologulu / Winston Tseng / Lloyd Asato / David MKI Liu |
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Healthcare and Indigenous Peoples in the United States / Jamila Jarmon -- Race, Poverty, and Incarceration / Michael Yellow Bird -- A Strategy for Dismantling Structural Racism in the Juvenile Justice System / Donald Braman -- JJDPA (box accompanying Cahn et al.) / Edgar S. Cahn / Cynthia Robbins / Keri A. Nash -- Native Americans and Juvenile Justice: A Hidden Tragedy / Edgar S. Cahn / Cynthia Robbins / Keri A. Nash -- National Statement to Support Human and Civil Rights for All Immigrants and to Oppose Compromise Immigration Reform Proposals / Terry L. Cross -- 21st Century Gateways: Immigrants in Suburban America / Terry L. Cross -- Natural Allies or Irreconcilable Foes? Reflections on African-American/Immigrant Relations / Audrey Singer / Caroline B. Brettell / Susan W. Hardwick -- Transportation and Civil Rights / Andrew Grant-Thomas / Cheryl Staats / Yusuf Sarfati -- Commentaries / Marc Brenman / Thomas W. Sanchez |
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Right to the City: Social Movement and Theory / Guillermo Mayer / Angela Glover Blackwell / Eugene B. Benson / Marc Brenman / David Rusk / Laura Barrett / Thomas W. Sanchez / Wade Henderson -- Bayard Rustin and the Civil Rights Movement / Jacqueline Leavitt / Marnie Brady / Tony Roshan Samara -- A Civil Right to Organize / Daniel Levine -- Commentaries on the Kahlenberg-Marvit Chapter / Moshe Z. Marvit / Richard D. Kahlenberg -- Various Authors / Moshe Z. Marvit / Richard D. Kahlenberg -- Kahlenberg and Marvit Respond / Moshe Z. Marvit / Richard D. Kahlenberg -- Local People as Law Shapers: Lessons from Atlanta's Civil Rights Movement / Moshe Z. Marvit / Richard D. Kahlenberg -- Freedom Riders / Tomiko Brown-Nagin -- The Chicago Freedom Movement 40 Years Later: A Symposium / Raymond Arsenault -- Assessing the Chicago Freedom Movement / Raymond Arsenault -- Success and the Chicago Freedom Movement / James Ralph |
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The End-the-Slums Movement / Mary Lou Finley -- Forty Years of the Civil Rights Movement in Chicago / Bernard LaFayette Jr -- Overall, Things Are Not Good / Dick Simpson -- The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee Gathers 50 Years After It Started: A Report on the Reunion / Salim Muwakkil -- The Other Side of Immigration: Humane, Sensible & Replicable Responses in a Changing Nation / Mike Miller -- PRRAC Board of Directors and Social Science Advisory Board- Current and Former Members / Susan E. Eaton. |
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Equality -- United States.
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Equality. |
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United States. |
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Social stratification -- United States.
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Social stratification. |
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Poverty -- United States.
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Poverty. |
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United States -- Race relations.
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Race relations. |
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United States -- Social conditions.
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Social conditions. |
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United States -- Economic conditions.
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Economic conditions. |
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Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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Hartman, Chester W.
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Print version: America's growing inequality 9780739191712 (DLC) 2013048981 (OCoLC)863789555 |
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9780739191729 (electronic book) |
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0739191721 (electronic book) |
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0739191713 |
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