America's Growing Inequality

Chester Hartman director of research at Poverty & Race Research Action Council.

We are living in a truly extraordinary moment in our history, plagued with economic inequality and rampant injustices. America’s Growing Inequality: The Impact of Poverty and Race is an essential tool to educate, inspire, and energize people to fight for necessary change.

• Foreword by Congressman Luis GutierrezIntroduction, Chester HartmanI. Racism and Poverty: The Structural UnderpinningsToward a Structural Racism Framework Andrew Grant-Thomas & john a. powellStructural Racism: Focusing on the CauseCliff SchruppAmerican Indian Tribes and Structural Racism Sherry Salway Black Structural Racism and Rebuilding New OrleansMaya WileyRace vis-à-vis Class in the U.S.?john a. powell & Stephen MenendianMore Than Just Race: Being Black and Poor in the Inner CityWilliam Julius WilsonTensions Among Minority GroupsSymposium with S.M. Miller, Wade Henderson, Don T. Nakanishi, john a. powell, Maria Blanco, Howard WinantIndigenous Peoples: Response to the Periodic Report of the United States to the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial DiscriminationTribal Self-Government in the United StatesJohn DossettWhen Affirmative Action Was WhiteIra KatznelsonThe Importance of Targeted Universalism john a. powell, S