Poverty & Race in America

Chester Hartman is Director of Research at the Poverty & Race Research Action Council.

Chester Hartman has put together a collection of incisive essays that explore the multiple dimensions of the intersection between race and class in the United States, and the public policies that both sustain and reflect race and class hierarchies. This is certain to be a valuable resource, both for teachers and for activists and advocates in the policy wars.

• Chapter 1 ForewordChapter 2 Editor's IntroductionPart 3 Race/RacismChapter 4 Whites Swim in Racial PreferenceChapter 5 Diversity Over JusticeChapter 6 Remembrance and Change in Philadelphia, MississippiChapter 7 Minority Exclusion in Small Town AmericaChapter 8 Skewing Democracy: Where the Census Counts PrisonersChapter 9 Language as Oppression: The English-Only Movement in the United StatesChapter 10 Apologies/ReparationsChapter 11 Organizing for Reparations: Lessons from the HolocaustChapter 12 Race Literacy QuizChapter 13 Reverse Discrimination QuizPart 14 PovertyChapter 15 From Poverty to Social Exclusion: Lessons from EuropeChapter 16 The Ethno/Racial Context of Povery in Rural and Small Town AmericaChapter 17 Concentration of Poverty Declines in the 1990sChapter 18 The Living Wage: A Progressive Movement in ActionChapter 19 Children Get Social Security, TooChapter 20 The Benefit BankChapter 21 Race, Poverty and Shared WealthChapter 22 Race, Poverty and the Estate TaxChapter 23 Race, Poverty and 'Economic Development' Gone HaywireChapter 24 Poverty QuizPart 25 HousingChapter 26 Why Housing Mobility? The Research Evidence TodayChapter 27 Racial Disparities in Housing and HealthChapter 28 A National Gautreaux Program: A SymposiumChapter 29 The Power and Limits of Place: New Directions for Housing Mobility and Research on NeighborhoodsChapter 30 Democracy's Unfinished Business: Federal Policy and the Search for Fair Housing, 1961-1968Chapter 31 Some Lessons fromBrown for the Fair Housing MovementChapter 32 Race, Poverty and the Homeowner InsuranceChapter 33 The CLT Model: A Tool for Permanently Affordable Housing and Wealth GenerationChapter 34 Predatory Lending: Undermining Economic Progress in Communities of ColorChapter 35 Housing QuizPart 36 EducationChapter 37 The O'Conner Project: Intervening Early to Eliminate the Need for Racial Preferences in Higher EducationChapter 38 Why Is School Reform So Hard?Chapter 39 Socioeconomic School Integration: A SymposiumChapter 40 Schools and the Achievement Gap: A SymposiumChapter 41 High Classroom Turnover: How Some Children Get Left BehindChapter 42 Race, Poverty and Special Education: Apprenticeships for Prison WorkChapter 43 Race, Poverty and Virtual LearningChapter 44 Race, Poverty, and Residential SchoolsChapter 45 Race, Poverty and Community SchoolsChapter 46 Education QuizPart 47 HealthChapter 48 What Works: A Fifty-Year RetrospectiveChapter 49 Why is HHS Obscuring a Heath Care Gap?Chapter 50 Race, Poverty and New Strategies to Control the Obesity EpidemicChapter 51 The Contribution of Black-White Health Differences to the Academic Achievement GapChapter 52 Eliminating the Slave Health Deficit: Using Reparations to Repair Black HeathChapter 53 Health Quiz IChapter 54 Health Quiz IIPart 55 DemocracyChapter 56 From Slave Republic to Constitutional Democracy: The Continuing Struggle for the Right to VoteChapter 57 Voting Rights for ImmigrantsChapter 58 Bringing American Democracy to America's CapitalChapter 59 The Birth of the White CorporationChapter 60 Democracy QuizPart 61 MiscellaneousChapter 62 Race, Poverty and HungerChapter 63 Race, Poverty and Youth DevelopmentChapter 64 Race, Poverty and the LGBT YouthChapter 65 Quiz Answers