Double Exposure: Poverty and Race in America

by Hartman; Jean M

• ISBN13: 9781563249617
• ISBN10: 1563249618
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1996-11-30
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

"A provocative and powerful collection of eclectic writings on the central moral issue of our times". -- Jonathan Kozol, author of Amazing Grace: The Lives of Children and the Conscience of a Nation "Double Exposure delivers a double dose of smart writing, controlled anger, and devasting common sense". -- Barbara Ehrenreich, author of Worst Years of Our Lives: Irreverent Notes from a Decade of Greed This book provides the most up-to-date and comprehensive review of the major topics surrounding our country s most troublesome and seemingly intractable social problem: the intersection of race and poverty. The sixty-three contributions -- by some of the nation's leading thinkers and activists (Nathan Glazer, Roger Wilkins, Senator Bill Bradley, Brent Staples, Congresswoman Maxine Waters, Manning Marable, Howard Winant, Benjamin DeMott, Max Frankel, Herbert Gans, Henry Hampton, Julian Bond, and many others), representing a variety of disciplines and backgrounds -- are organized under seven key topics: affirmative action; the "permanence of racism" thesis; the use and utility of racial and ethnic categories; multiculturalism; immigration; the "underclass" debate; and democracy/equality.

Table of Contents

Foreword	ix
Bill Bradley
Preface	xv
Julian Bond
Editor's Introduction	xix
Chester Hartman
Introduction	3	(14)
john a. powell
Part 1. Is Racism Permanent?
Commentaries	17	(22)
Howard Winant
S.M. Miller
John C. Brittain
Leslye E. Orloff
Paul Ong
Daniel Levitas
Jose Padilla
Bernardine Dohrn
john a. powell
Put on a Happy Face: Masking the Differences Between Blacks and Whites	39	(6)
Benjamin DeMott
The New International Dynamics of Race	45	(12)
Howard Winant
Part 2. Racial/Ethnic Categories
One Drop of Blood	57	(15)
Lawrence Wright
The Limitations of Directive 15	72	(5)
Juanita Tamayo Lott
The Error of the Third Type	77	(3)
Samuel L. Myers, Jr.
Categories Count	80	(3)
Libero Della Piana
At the Races: The Multiracial Proposal	83	(2)
Ibrahim K. Sundiata
Accurate Racial/Ethnic Data Should Drive Category Review	85	(5)
Raul Yzaguirre
Sonia M. Perez
A Single Census Question to Measure Race, Spanish Origin, and Ancestry	90	(3)
Reynolds Farley
On the Census Race and Ethnic Categories	93	(4)
Nathan Glazer
Who Thought of Dropping Racial Categories, and Why?	97	(4)
john a. powell
Part 3. Immigration
An International Perspective on Migration	101	(4)
Cathi Tactaquin
Changing Relations: Newcomers and Established Residents in U.S. Communities	105	(7)
Robert Bach
Commentary	112	(2)
Cathi Tactaquin
Immigration and the Civil Rights Movement	114	(3)
William R. Tamayo
Job Competition Between Immigrants and African Americans	117	(6)
Paul Ong
Abel Valenzuela, Jr.
Latino Immigrants in Los Angeles: A Portrait from the 1990 Census	123	(7)
David Hayes-Bautista
Werner Schink
Gregory Rodriguez
The Immigration Quiz	130	(5)
Part 4. ``The Underclass''
American Apartheid: Segregation and the Making of the Underclass	135	(5)
Douglas S. Massey
Fighting the Biases Embedded in Social Concepts of the Poor	140	(4)
Herbert J. Gans
The Welfare Quiz	144	(2)
The Income and Jobs Quiz	146	(5)
Part 5. Multiculturalism
Racism and Multicultural Democracy	151	(9)
Manning Marable
The Debate on Multiculturalism	160	(3)
john a. powell
Social History: Our Rudder in the Midst of Storms	163	(8)
Henry Hampton
Part 6. Affirmative Action
Affirmative Action: The Questions to Be Asked	171	(3)
William L. Taylor
Racism Has Its Privileges	174	(4)
Roger Wilkins
Scapegoating	178	(1)
Maxine Waters
Affirmative Action: Why Bosses Like It	179	(2)
The Presumption of Stupidity: Affirmative Action, Occupational Apartheid	181	(1)
Brent Staples
Reaffirm the Affirmative	182	(1)
Max Frankel
Affirmative Action: The Army's Success	182	(3)
Charles Moskos
Affirmative Action, R.I.P.	185	(2)
Salim Muwakkil
The Affirmative Action Quiz	187	(4)
Fred Pincus
Reparations	191	(12)
john a. powell
Sharon Parker
Theodore M. Shaw
Howard Winant
Richard America
David McReynolds
Kalonji Olusegun
Ronald Trosper
John Tateishi
Part 7. Democracy/Equality
Race, Wealth, and Inequality in America	203	(6)
Melvin L. Oliver
Thomas M. Shapiro
Respect!	209	(8)
S.M. Miller
Karen Marie Ferroggiaro
Reuniting City and Suburb: The Key to Inner-City Progress	217	(6)
David Rusk
Commentaries	223	(9)
Margaret Weir
Eric Mann
John O. Calmore
The Economic Inequality Quiz	232	(3)
Quiz Answers	235	(6)
Contributors	241	(6)
PRRAC Board of Directors and Social Science Advisory Board	247	(4)
Index	251