Challenges to Equality: Poverty and Race in America: Poverty and Race in America

by Hartman; Jean M

• ISBN13: 9780765607263
• ISBN10: 0765607263
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-01-01
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Poverty and race -- two of America's most salient, and seemingly intractable, domestic problems -- form the cornerstone of this volume. Featuring contributions by some of the most progressive thinkers on these subjects, the book focuses on the key questions as we begin the new century. From the possibility of achieving true integration (as opposed to mere desegregation), environmental justice, education and its role as counter to structural poverty, to the promise (and lack thereof) of recent anti-poverty policies, Challenges to Equality shines an unflinching light on some of the most important issues we face as a society.

Table of Contents

Foreword	xiii
John Lewis
Introduction	xv
Chester Hartman
Part 1. Integration
Civil Rights, Now and Then	3	(10)
Julian Bond
Wake Up, Jared Taylor! America is a Democracy Now!	13	(2)
Howard Winant
Digging Our of the White Trap	15	(4)
Marian (Meck) Groot
Paul Marcus
Response	19	(1)
Chip Berlet
Surina Khan
Race and Space	20	(7)
John A. Powell
Telling History on the Landscape	27	(6)
James W. Loewen
``Don't Know Much About History...'' Quiz	33	(1)
James W. Loewen
Bilingual Education	34	(3)
Bebe Moore Campbell
Symposium: Is Integration Possible?	36	(1)
Editor's Introduction	36	(1)
By the Color of Our Skin: The Illusion of Integration and the Reality of Race	37	(8)
Leonard Steinhorn
Barbara Diggs-Brown
Commentaries:	45	(1)
The Politics of Equality	45	(1)
Jerome Scott
Walda Katz-Fishman
Enquality Versus Integration	46	(2)
Herbert J. Gans
Viable Integration Must Reject the Ideology of ``Assimilationism''	48	(3)
John O. Calmore
A Wake-Up Call for Liberals	51	(1)
Richard D. Kahlenberg
``Now We Are Engaged in a Great Civil War, Testing Whether That Nation, or Any Nation So Conceived and So Dedicated, Can Long Endure''	52	(2)
Howard Winant
The Morally Lazy White Middle Class	54	(1)
Robert Jensen
Today's Integration Challenge	55	(2)
Angela E. Oh
Half Full? Half Empty?	57	(2)
James W. Loewen
Needed: An Antiwhite Movement	59	(2)
Noel Ignatiev
Is Integration Possible? Of Course...	61	(3)
Florence Wagman Roisman
What Is the Question? Integration or Defeat of Racism?	64	(2)
James Early
Education and Incentives to Actualize Integration	66	(2)
Don DeMarco
Should Racial Integration Be Pursued As the Only Goal?	68	(2)
Joe Feagin
Yvonne Combs
Progress in Integration Has Been Made	70	(1)
George C. Galster
Unillusioned	71	(3)
S.M. Miller
Keeping the Dream	74	(2)
William L. Taylor
No One Even Knows What Integration Is	76	(1)
John Woodford
We Aspire to Integration and Practice Pluralism	77	(2)
Frank H. Wu
Integration: The Long Hard Road to the Right Destination	79	(2)
Paul L. Wachtel
The Politics of Perception	81	(3)
Ty dePass
Response to ``Is Integration Possible?'' Symposium	84	(7)
Leonard Steinhorn
Part 2. Poverty
Editor's Introduction	91	(1)
Economic Growth and Poverty: Lessons from the 1980s and 1990s	91	(6)
Jared Bernstein
Welfare Reform and Racial/Ethnic Minorities: The Questions to Ask	97	(5)
Steve Savner
The Outcomes of Welfare Reform for Women	102	(4)
Barbara Gault
Annisah Um'rani
America's Fifth Child: It's Time To End Child Poverty in America	106	(7)
Marian Wright Edelman
Wealth, Success, and Poverty in Indian Country	113	(4)
D. Bambi Kraus
Race and Poverty in the Rural South	117	(6)
Margaret Walsh
Cynthia M. Duncan
Poverty, Racial Discrimination, and the Family Farm	123	(10)
Stephen Carpenter
Part 3. Education
Editor's Introduction	133	(1)
The Growing Education Gap	133	(3)
Kati Haycock
Symposium: Is Racial Integration Essential to Achieving Quality Education for Low-Income Minority Students? In the Short Term? In the Long Term?	136	(1)
A Case Could Be Made on Either Side	136	(2)
Phyllis Hart
Joyce Germaine Watts
Forced Racial Integration Has Produced Poor Results	138	(2)
Lyman Ho
Upgrade Education in Schools Serving Poor and Minority Children	140	(1)
Kati Haycock
Integration Is Not Cultural Assimilation	141	(7)
John A. Powell
All Students Are Not Equal	148	(3)
Sheryl Denbo
Byron Williams
Separation, Then Integration	151	(1)
Marcelitte Failla
Symposium: The Standards Movement in Education: Will Poor and Minority Students Benefit?	151	(1)
The Standards Movement: Another Warning	151	(3)
John Cawthorne
The Standards Movement in Education: A Part of Systemic Reform	154	(1)
Peter Negroni
Standards or Standardization?	155	(2)
William Ayers
Without Good Assessment, Standards Will Fail	157	(2)
Monty Neill
High-Stakes Testing: Potential Consequences for Students of Color, English-Language Learners, and Students with Disabilities	159	(8)
Jay P. Heubert
The Education Vision: A Third Tier	167	(4)
S.M. Miller
Part 4. Democratic Participation
Editor's Introduction	171	(1)
Why Not Democracy?	171	(5)
David Kairys
New Means for Political Empowerment: Proportional Voting	176	(7)
Douglas J. Amy
Fred McBride
Robert Richie
Race, Poverty, and the ``Wealth Primary''	183	(7)
Jamin B. Raskin
Commentaries:	190	(1)
Operating Most Effectively Under the Current System	190	(2)
Ellen Malcolm
``We've Closed Down'' Hollywood Women's Political Committee	192	(1)
``Not the Rich, More Than the Poor'': Poverty, Race, and Campaign Finance Reform	193	(8)
John C. Bonifaz
I am a Product of the Voting Rights Act!	201	(4)
Cynthia A. McKinney
Part 5. Environmental Justice
Editor's Introduction	205	(1)
Race, Poverty, and Sustainable Communities	205	(4)
Carl Anthony
Race and Poverty Data as a Tool in the Struggle for Environmental Justice	209	(6)
Kary L. Moss
Analysis of Racially Disparate Impacts in the Siting of Environmental Hazards	215	(4)
Thomas J. Henderson
David S. Bailey
Selena Mendy Singleton
The Street, the Courts, the Legislature, and the Press: Where Environmental Struggles Happen	219	(6)
Rachel Godsil
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	225	(3)
Luke W. Cole
Key Research and Policy Issues Facing Environmental Justice	228	(7)
Bunyan Bryant
Part 6. Race, Poverty, and ...
Editor's Introduction	235	(1)
Race, Poverty, and the Two-Tiered Financial Services System	235	(13)
Robert D. Manning
Race, Poverty, and Transportation	248	(7)
Rich Stolz
Race, Poverty, and Corporate Welfare	255	(4)
Greg LeRoy
Race, Poverty, and the Militarized Welfare State	259	(7)
Bristow Hardin
Race, Poverty, and the Federal Reserve System	266	(4)
Tom Schlesinger
Race, Poverty, and Social Security	270	(3)
John A. Powell
Race, Poverty, and Immigration	273	(6)
Arnoldo Garcia
Race, Poverty, and Globalization	279	(12)
John A. Powell
S.P. Udayakumar
Part 7. President Clinton's Initiative on Race
Editor's Introduction	289	(2)
Notes on the President's Initiative on Race	291	(5)
Chester Hartman
The Speech President Clinton Should Have Made	296	(3)
Howard Winant
Symposium: Advice to the Advisory Board	299	(1)
Public Education, Policy Initiatives, Paradigm Shift	299	(3)
Raul Yzaguirre
Needed: An Educational ``Bible''	302	(2)
Marcus Raskin
Plessy v. Ferguson Lives	304	(1)
Jonathan Kozol
Acknowledge, Understand White-Skin Privilege	305	(1)
Julian Bond
An Action Agenda	306	(2)
Hugh Price
Focus on the Institutional Barriers	308	(1)
Manning Marable
Knitting the Nation	309	(2)
S.M. Miller
A Ten-Point Plan	311	(2)
Peter Dreier
Needed: A Focus on the Intersection of Race and Poverty	313	(1)
Peter Edelman
Conversation Is Far from the Central Issue	314	(2)
Howard Zinn
If Not Action on Race, Then Straight Talk	316	(1)
Herbert J. Gans
Fantasy Moral Capital	317	(1)
Benjamin DeMott
Escaping Clinton's Control	318	(1)
Frances Fox Piven
...And Interracial Justice For All	319	(2)
Michael Omi
First Peoples First	321	(3)
Lillian Wilmore
Conversation Doesn't Pay the Rent	324	(4)
William L. Taylor
Spotlight Bigotry's Covert Expression	328	(1)
David K. Shipler
A Lesson Plan for Thinking and Talking About Race	329	(2)
Theodore M. Shaw
Symposium: Comments on the Advisory Board Report	331	(1)
Neither Praise Nor Burial	331	(3)
S.M. Miller
Where Is the Declaration of War?	334	(1)
Bill Ong Hing
Not a Word of Criticism of Clinton	335	(2)
Clarence Lusane
No Surprises	337	(1)
Frances Fox Piven
Native Nations Won't Rally Around ``One Nation'' Concept	338	(1)
Lillian Wilmore
``One America'' Needs To Be More Than a Nice Slogan	339	(2)
Frank H. Wu
Politainment and an Extended Renaissance Weekend	341	(1)
Marcus Raskin
``One America''---To What Ends?	342	(2)
Sam Husseini
There's No Racial Justice Without Economic Justice	344	(5)
Peter Dreier
Contributors	349	(14)
PRRAC Board of Directors and Social Science Advisory Board	363	(4)
Index	367