Challenges to Equality: Poverty and Race in America

by Jean M Hartman, John Lewis

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780765607263
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	01/01/2001
Pages:	336
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Part 1 Integration; Chapter 1 Civil Rights, Now and Then, Julian Bond; Chapter 2 Wake Up, Jared Taylor! America is a Democracy Now!, Howard Winant; Chapter 3 Digging Out of the White Trap, Marian (Meek) Groot, Paul Marcus; Chapter 4 Response, Chip Berlet, Surina Khan; Chapter 5 Race and Space, John a. powell; Chapter 6 Telling History on the Landscape, James W. Loewen; Chapter 7 Don't Know Much About History.... Quiz, James W. Loewen; Chapter 8 Bilingual Education, Bebe Moore Campbell; Part 2 Symposium; Chapter 9 By the Color of Our Skin: The Illusion of Integration and the Reality of Race, Leonard Steinhorn, Barbara Diggs-Brown; Part 3 Commentaries; Chapter 10 The Politics of Equality, Jerome Scott, Walda Katz-Fishman; Chapter 11 Equality Versus Integration, Herbert J. Gans; Chapter 12 Viable Integration Must Reject the Ideology of Assimilationism, John O. Calmore; Chapter 13 A Wake-Up Call for Liberals, Richard D. Kahlenberg; Chapter 14 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; Chapter 15 The Morally Lazy White Middle Class, Robert Jensen; Chapter 16 Today's Integration Challenge, Angela E. Oh; Chapter 17 Half Full? Half Empty?, James W. Loewen; Chapter 18 Needed: An Antiwhite Movement, Noel Ignatiev; Chapter 19 Is Integration Possible? Of Course..., Florence Wagman Roisman; Chapter 20 What Is the Question? Integration or Defeat of Racism?, James Early; Chapter 21 Education and Incentives to Actualize Integration, Don DeMarco; Chapter 22 Should Racial Integration Be Pursued As the Only Goal?, Joe Feagin, Yvonne Combs; Chapter 23 Progress in Integration Has Been Made, George C. Galster; Chapter 24 Unillusioned, S.M. Miller; Chapter 25 Keeping the Dream, William L. Taylor; Chapter 26 No One Even Knows What Integration Is, John Woodford; Chapter 27 We Aspire to Integration and Practice Pluralism, Frank H. Wu; Chapter 28 Integration: The Long Hard Road to the Right