Challenges to Equality: Poverty and Race in America: Poverty and Race in America

This text on controversial American social issues covers topics like: integration and civil rights; President Clinton's race initiative; poverty; education; the environment; democratic participation; disability rights; and corporate welfare. Featuring The Contributions Of Some Of The Most Progressive Thinkers On Poverty And Race, This Book Focuses On The Key Questions: The Possibility Of Achieving A True Integration (as Opposed To Mere De-segregation), Environmental Justice, Education And Its Role As A Counter To Structural Poverty, And The Promise (and Lack Thereof) Of Recent Anti-poverty Policies.-- Publisher's Description. Part 1. Integration -- Civil Rights, Now And Then / Julian Bond 3 -- Wake Up, Jared Taylor! America Is A Democracy Now! / Howard Winant 13 -- Digging Out Of The White Trap / Marian (meck) Groot, Paul Marcus 15 -- Response / Chip Berlet, Surina Khan 19 -- Race And Space / John A. Powell 20 -- Telling History On The Landscape / James W. Loewen 27 -- Don't Know Much About History ... Quiz / James W. Loewen 33 -- Bilingual Education / Bebe Moore Campbell 34 -- Symposium: Is Integration Possible? 36 -- By The Color Of Our Skin: The Illusion Of Integration And The Reality Of Race / Leonard Steinhorn, Barbara Diggs-brown 37 -- Politics Of Equality / Jerome Scott, Walda Katz-fishman 45 -- Equality Versus Integration / Herbert J. Gans 46 -- Viable Integration Must Reject The Ideology Of Assimilationism / John O. Calmore 48 -- A Wake-up Call For Liberals / Richard D. Kahlenberg 51 -- Now We Are Engaged In A Great Civil War, Testing Whether That Nation, Or Any Nation So Conceived And So Dedicated, Can Long Endure / Howard Winant 52 -- Morally Lazy White Middle Class / Robert Jensen 54 -- Today's Integration Challenge / Angela E. Oh 55 -- Half Full? Half Empty? / James W. Loewen 57 -- Needed: An Antiwhite Movement / Noel Ignatiev 59 -- Is Integration Possible? Of Course ... / Florence Wagman Roisman 61 -- What Is The Question? Integration Or Defeat Of Racism? / James Early 64 -- Education And Incentives To Actualize Integration / Don Demarco 66 -- Should Racial Integration Be Pursued As The Only Goal? / Joe Feagin, Yvonne Combs 68 -- Progress In Integration Has Been Made / George C. Galster 70 -- Unillusioned / S.m. Miller 71 -- Keeping The Dream / William L. Taylor 74 -- No One Even Knows What Integration Is / John Woodford 76 -- We Aspire To Integration And Practice Pluralism / Frank H. Wu 77 -- Integration: The Long Hard Road To The Right Destination / Paul L. Wachtel 79 -- Politics Of Perception / Ty Depass 81 -- Response To Is Integration Possible? Symposium / Leonard Steinhorn 84 -- Part 2. Poverty -- Economic Growth And Poverty: Lessons From The 1980s And 1990s / Jared Bernstein 91 -- Welfare Reform And Racial/ethnic Minorities: The Questions To Ask / Steve Savner 97 -- Outcomes Of Welfare Reform For Women / Barbara Gault, Annisah Um'rani 102 -- America's Fifth Child: It's Time To End Child Poverty In America / Marian Wright Edelman 106 -- Wealth, Success, And Poverty In Indian Country / D. Bambi Kraus 113 -- Race And Poverty In The Rural South / Margaret Walsh, Cynthia M. Duncan 117 -- Poverty, Racial Discrimination, And The Family Farm / Stephen Carpenter 123 -- Part 3. Education -- Growing Education Gap / Kati Haycock 133 -- Symposium: Is Racial Integration Essential To Achieving Quality Education For Low-income Minority Students? In The Short Term? In The Long Term? 136 -- A Case Could Be Made On Either Side / Phyllis Hart, Joyce Germaine Watts 136 -- Forced Racial Integration Has Produced Poor Results / Lyman Ho 138 -- Upgrade Education In Schools Serving Poor And Minority Children / Kati Haycock 140 -- Integration Is Not Cultural Assimilation / John A. Powell 141 -- All Students Are Not Equal / Sheryl Denbo, Byron Williams 148 -- Separation, Then Integration / Marcelitte Failla 151 -- Symposium: The Standards Movement In Education: Will Poor And Minority Students Benefit? 151 -- Standards Movement: Another Warning / John Cawthorne 151 -- Standards Movement In Education: A Part Of Systemic Reform / Peter Negroni 154 -- Standards Or Standardization? / William Ayers 155 -- Without Good Assessment, Standards Will Fail / Monty Neill 157 -- High-stakes Testing: Potential Consequences For Students Of Color, English-language Learners, And Students With Disabilities / Jay P. Heubert 159 -- Education Vision: A Third Tier / S.m. Miller 167 -- Part 4. Democraticg Participation -- Why Not Democracy? / David Kairys 171 -- New Means For Political Empowerment: Proportional Voting / Douglas J. Amy, Fred Mcbride, Robert Richie 176 -- Race, Poverty, And The Wealth Primary / Jamin B. Raskin 183 -- Operating Most Effectively Under The Current System / Ellen Malcolm 190 -- We've Closed Down / Hollywood Women's Political Committee 192 -- Not The Rich, More Than The Poor: Poverty, Race, And Campaign Finance Reform / John C. Bonifaz 193 -- I Am A Product Of The Voting Rights Act! / Cynthia A. Mckiney 201 -- Part 5. Environmental Justice -- Race, Poverty, And Sustainable Communities / Carl Anthony 205 -- Race And Poverty Data As A Tool In The Struggle For Environmental Justice / Kary L. Moss 209 -- Analysis Of Racially Disparate Impacts In The Siting Of Environmental Hazards / Thomas J. Henderson, David S. Bailey, Selena Mendy Singleton 215 -- Street, The Courts, The Legislature, And The Press: Where Environmental Struggles Happen / Rachel Godsil 219 -- Truth Won't Set You Free (but It Might Make The Evening News): The Use Of Demographic Information In Struggles For Environmental Justice In California / Luke W. Cole 225 -- Key Research And Policy Issues Facing Environmental Justice / Bunyan Bryant 228 -- Race, Poverty, And The Two-tiered Financial Services System / Robert D. Manning 235 -- Race, Poverty, And Transportation / Rich Stolz 248 -- Race, Poverty, And Corporate Welfare / Greg Leroy 255 -- Race, Poverty, And The Militarized Welfare State / Bristow Hardin 259 -- Race, Poverty, And The Federal Reserve System / Tom Schlesinger 266 -- Race, Poverty, And Social Security / John A. Powell 270 -- Race, Poverty, And Immigration / Arnoldo Garcia 273 -- Race, Poverty, And Globalization / John A. Powell, S.p. Udayakumar 279 -- Part 7. President Clinton's Initiative On Race -- Notes On The President's Initiative On Race / Chester Hartman 291 -- Speech President Clinton Should Have Made / Howard Winant 296 -- Symposium: Advice To The Advisory Board 299 -- Public Education, Policy Initiatives, Paradigm Shift / Raul Yzaguirre 299 -- Needed: An Educational Bible / Marcus Raskin 302 -- Plessy V. Ferguson Lives / Jonathan Kozol 304 -- Acknowledge, Understand White-skin Privilege / Julian Bond 305 -- An Action Agenda / Hugh Price 306 -- Focus On The Institutional Barriers / Manning Marable 308 -- Knitting The Nation / S.m. Miller 309 -- A Ten-point Plan / Peter Dreier 311 -- Needed: A Focus On The Intersection Of Race And Poverty / Peter Edelman 313 -- Conversation Is Far From The Central Issue / Howard Zinn 314 -- If Not Action On Race, Then Straight Talk / Herbert J. Gans 316 -- Fantasy Moral Capital / Benjamin Demott 317 -- Escaping Clinton's Control / Frances Fox Piven 318 -- ... And Interracial Justice For All / Michael Omi 319 -- First Peoples First / Lillian Wilmore 321 -- Conversation Doesn't Pay The Rent / William L. Taylor 324 -- Spotlight Bigotry's Covert Expression / David K. Shipler 328 -- A Lesson Plan For Thinking And Talking About Race / Theodore M. Shaw 329 -- Symposium: Comments On The Advisory Board Report 331 -- Neither Praise Nor Burial / S.m. Miller 331 -- Where Is The Declaration Of War? / Bill Ong Hing 334 -- Not A Word Of Criticism Of Clinton / Clarence Lusane 335 -- No Surprises / Frances Fox Piven 337 -- Native Nations Won't Rally Around One Nation Concept / Lillian Wilmore 338 -- One America Needs To Be More Than A Nice Slogan / Frank H. Wu 339 -- Politainment And An Extended Renaissance Weekend / Marcus Raskin 341 -- One America--to What Ends? / Sam Husseini 342 -- There's No Racial Justice Without Economic Justice / Peter Dreier 344. Chester Hartman, Editor. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Artioles and symposia on major controversial social issues: integration and civil rights; President Clinton's recent race initiative; poverty; education; the environment; democratic participation; disability rights; corporate welfare; and others. The range of contributors is wide, and includes Julian Bond, Herbert Gans, James Loewen, Jonathan Kozol, Manning Marable, Howard Zinn, Benjamin DeMott, Frances Fox Piven, and Marian Wright Edelman.