Poverty & race in America : the emerging agendas / edited by Chester Hartman ; [with a foreword by Jesse L. Jackson, Jr.].

"Articles and symposia from Poverty & race, the bimonthly newsletter journal of the Poverty & Race Research Action Council (PRRAC) ... works originally published between mid-2001 and 2005, many of which have been revised and updated"--P. [4] of cover.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Whites swim in racial preference / Tim Wise -- Diversity over justice / Eric Foner -- Remembrance and change in Philadelphia, Mississippi / James W. Loewen -- Sundown towns / James W. Loewen -- Minority exclusion in small town America / James H. Johnson, Jr., Ann Moss Joyner and Allan Parnell -- Skewing democracy: where the census counts prisoners / Peter Wagner -- Language as oppression: the English-only movement in the United States / Andrew Hartman -- Apologies/reparations -- Organizing for reparations: lessons from the Holocaust / Marc Masurovsky -- Race literacy quiz / Califonia Newsreel -- Reverse discrimination quiz / Fred L. Pincus -- From poverty to social exclusion: lessons from Europe / Hilary Silver and S. M. Miller -- The ethno/racial context of poverty in rural and small town America / Calvin L. Beale -- Concentration of poverty declined in the 1990s / Paul Jargowsky -- The living wage: a progressive movement in action / Jared Bernstein and Jeff Chapman -- Children get Social Security, too / William E. Spriggs -- The benefit bank / Robert Brand -- Race, poverty and shared wealth / Andrew T. Lamas -- Race, poverty and the estate tax / Gary Bass ... [et al.] -- Race, poverty and "economic development" gone haywire / Greg LeRoy -- Poverty quiz / Catholic campaign for human development -- Why housing mobility?: the research evidence today / Margery Austin Turner and Dolores Acevedo-Garcia -- Racial disparities in housing and health / Dolores Acevedo-Garcia and Theresa L. Osypuk -- A national Gautreaux program: a symposium -- Alexander Polikoff ... [et al.] -- The power and limits of place: new directions for housing mobility and research on neighborhoods / Xavier de Souza Briggs -- Democracy's unfinished business: federal policy and the search for fair housing, 1961-68 / David M. P. Freund -- Some lessons from Brown for the fair housing movement / Philip Tegeler -- Race, poverty and homeowner insurance / Gregory D. Squires -- The CLT model: a tool for permanently affordable housing and wealth generation / Gus Newport -- Predatory lending: undermining economic progress in communities of color / Mike Calhoun and Nikitra Bailey -- Housing quiz / California Newsreel -- The O'Connor project: intervening early to eliminate the need for racial preferences in higher education / Lisbeth B. Schorr -- Why is school reform so hard? / Linde Christensen and Stan Karp -- Socioeconomic school integration: a symposium / Richard D. Kahlenberg ... [et al.] -- Schools and the achievement gap: a symposium / Richard Rothstein ... [et al.] -- High classroom turnover: how some children get left behind / Chester Hartman and Alison Leff -- Race, poverty and special education: apprenticeships for prison work / Rosa Smith -- Race, poverty and virtual learning / Sharon Johnston and Michelle Kinley -- Race, poverty and residential schools / Heidi Goldsmith -- Race, poverty and community schools / Ira Harkavy and Martin J. Blank -- Education quiz / Derrick Z. Jackson -- What works: a fifty-year retrospective / David Barton Smith -- Why is HHS obscuring a health care gap? / H. Jack Geiger -- Race, poverty and new strategies to control the obesity epidemic / Anthony Robbins, Wendy E. Parmet and Richard Daynard -- The contribution of black-white health differences to the academic achievement gap / Richard Rothstein and Tamara Wilder -- Eliminating the slave health deficit: using reparations to repair black health / Vernellia R. Randall -- Health quiz I / Health Policy Institute -- Health quiz II / David Barton Smith -- From slave republic to constitutional democracy : the continuing struggle for the right to vote / Jamin Raskin -- Voting right for immigrants / Catherine Tactaquin -- Bringing American democracy to America's capital / D. C. Vote -- The birth of the white corporation / Jeffrey Kaplan -- Democracy quiz / Peter Kellman -- Race, poverty and hunger / Alison Leff and Alexandra Cawthorne -- Race, poverty and youth development / Carla Roach, Hanh Cao Yu and Heather Lewis-Charp -- Race poverty and LGBT youth / L. Michael Gipson.