Jobs and Economic Development in Minority Communities

"This book is highly recommended, and its in-depth treatment of the historical and social context of concentrated poverty and policy alternatives would make it particularly useful in a graduate seminar...The editors have done a remarkable job of putting together a volume in which each chapter seems to build on the examples and policy recommendations of the others. Rather than being an assortment of articles on a theme, the chapters together create a 'collective wisdom' of community economic development." Journal of American Ethnic History "Jobs and Economic Development in Minority Communities provides a state-of-the-art compilation of current thinking on the issue of minority economic development. Given the economic distress that continues to plague minority communities in the United States, the book will be of interest to a broad array of urban planners and scholars." The Journal of Planning Education and Research "The compendium's most valuable contribution is its challenge to prevailing assumptions about the regional character of job markets and best practices in workforce and enterprise development...Practitioners and applied scholars will find useful frameworks for promoting, designing, and implementing holistic, community-based metropolitan economic development plans. The collection's challenges to status quo thinking about 'best practices' translate into reasoned approaches for nongentrifying, nondisplacing, and economically and socially effective economic development." Economic Development Quarterly "[A]n extremely valuable addition to debates focused on stimulating jobs and economic development in minority communities. It importantly -- and quite correctly -- emphasizes the need to sensitize community development activities according to geographical, cultural, and socio-political contexts and the need for interventions to be both cross-cutting and multi-dimensional." - Journal of Town Planning Review, issue 4, 2008

• 1: Introduction: Jobs and Economic Development in Minority Communities Realities, Challenges, and Innovation (Ong, P. and Loukaitou-Sideris, A.) Part I: The Context 2: Metropolitan Dispersion and Diversity: Implications for Community Economic Development (Blumenberg, E.); 3: Impacts of the New Social Policy Regime (Houston, D. and Ong, P.); Chapter 4: The Regional Nexus: The Promise and Risk of Community-Based Approaches to Metropolitan Equity (Pastor, M., Benner, C., and Matsuoka, M.) Part II: Labor Market Development 5: Workforce Development in Minority Communities (Stoll, M.); 6: Employment Opportunities Beyond the 'hood: African American and Hispanic Applicants in Atlanta, Los Angeles, New York, and Philadelphia (Zonta, M.); 7: Economic Development in Latino Communities: Incorporating Marginal and Immigrant Workers (Valenzuela, A) Part III: Business Development 8: The Role of Black-owned Businesses in Black Community Development (Boston, T.); 9: New York City's Asian Immigrant Economies: Community Development Needs and Challenges (Hum, T.); 10: Indian Gaming as Community Economic Development (Jojola, T. and Ong, P.) Part IV: Complementary Strategies 11: Social Networks and Social Capital: Latinos in Pico Union (Loukaitou-Sideris, A. and Hutchinson, J.); 12: Linking Housing to Community Economic Development with Community Benefits Agreements: The Case of the Figueroa Corridor Coalition for Economic Justice (Leavitt, J.); 13: Synchronizing Social Services with Labor Market Participation: Implications for Community Economic Development in Minority Neighborhoods (Takahashi, L); 14 Conclusion: Lessons for Community Economic Development (Loukaitou-Sideris, A. and Ong, P.)