Uncommon Common Ground Pa

by Blackwell,Angela Glover

• ISBN13: 9780393336856
• ISBN10: 0393336859
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-06-07
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Summary

Even after the election of America's first black president, racial inequality continues to plague the nation. Barack Obama's election ushered in a new era of hope, but measurable racial change is still elusive: We still fail to graduate more than one-quarter of young black men from high school, and nearly a third of all African American, Latino, and Southeast Asian American children live in poverty. By 2050, the United States in projected to be a nation with no single racial group as a majority. It is no longer just the future of racial minorities that is worrisome; the nation itself faces peril if the new, broader majority fails.

Author Biography

Jeffrey Feldman (Princeton, NJ), founder and CEO of the XShares Group and a 40-year veteran of Wall Street, created the TDX Independence Funds, the first target-date ETFs in partnership with TD Ameritrade, and serves as the Funds' Chairman.
Andrew Hyman (Chicago, IL) is the coauthor of ETF Strategies and Tactics: Hedge Your Portfolio in a Changing Market and Energy Risk Management: A Primer for the Utility Industry, as well as other books on the utility industry
ANGELA GLOVER BLACKWELL is the founder and CEO of PolicyLink, a national research and action institute advancing economic and social equity, with offices in Oakland, California, and New York, New York
STEWART KWOH is the founding president and executive director of the Asian Pacific American Legal Center in Los Angeles.
MANUEL PASTOR is a professor of American Studies & Ethnicity and the director of the Program for Environmental and Regional Equity (PERE) at the University of Southern California

Table of Contents

Preface	p. 13
Acknowledgments	p. 17
Are We Postracial Yet?	p. 21
Change in America	p. 29
Stories of America: How We Came to Update This Book	p. 36
Angela Glover Blackwell	p. 38
Stewart Kwoh	p. 40
Manuel Pastor	p. 43
Complicating the Quest for Equity: Five Dimensions	p. 46
The Black-White Paradigm versus Multiculturalism	p. 46
Diversity versus Racial and Social Equity	p. 47
Universal versus Particular Strategies	p. 48
National versus Regional versus Local Responsibility	p. 49
Structural Factors versus Individual Initiative	p. 51
A Call on Leadership	p. 51
Notes	p. 52
References	p. 53
Color Lines	p. 55
Growing Diversity	p. 56
Accepting Diversity	p. 70
Mixed Attitudes	p. 77
Defining the Black-White Paradigm	p. 80
The Lingering Black-White Paradigm	p. 84
Limits of the Black-White Paradigm	p. 92
Notes	p. 96
References	p. 99
American Progress and Disconnection	p. 103
The Color of Work	p. 106
Race and Well-Being: Will These Differences Persist?	p. 115
Race and Economics: Complicating the Story	p. 124
Minority Small Business: A Bright Spot	p. 127
The Driving Factors of Inequality	p. 131
A New World, a New Agenda	p. 146
Notes	p. 148
References	p. 149
Urgent Challenges	p. 154
The Road Ahead: Key Issues for the Twenty-First Century	p. 157
Comprehensive Education	p. 157
A Look at the Data	p. 163
Twenty-First-Century Employment	p. 169
Immigration Reform and Immigrants	p. 173
Incarceration and Prisoner Reintegration	p. 188
Healthy Metropolitan Communities	p. 193
Transportation	p. 195
Access to Grocery Stores	p. 196
Protecting Against Displacement	p. 197
Putting It Together	p. 199
Climate Change and Equity	p. 200
Conclusion	p. 204
Notes	p. 204
References	p. 206
New Leadership for the Twenty-First Century	p. 211
Leadership for Changing Times	p. 214
Leadership in the New Economy	p. 218
Leadership, New Politics, and New Demography	p. 219
Leadership in the New Geography	p. 229
Leadership, New Technology, and New Skills	p. 233
Putting It Together: New Capacities for Communities	p. 235
Approaches to Developing Effective Leadership	p. 237
Leadership Networks	p. 238
Leadership Development Programs	p. 240
Developing Leadership in Ongoing Organizing Work	p. 243
Notes	p. 246
References	p. 246
The Way Forward: An Equity Model	p. 249
Leading with Equity	p. 250
Leading for Equity	p. 253
Leading on Equity	p. 256
References	p. 257
Data Sources	p. 259
About The American Assembly	p. 269
Index	p. 271
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