ABSTRACT

Leading thinkers and activists discuss the intersection of race and poverty. The essays are organized around seven key topics including: affirmative action; the permanence of racism thesis; the use and utility of racial and ethnic categories; multiculturalism; and the underclass debate.

chapter |12 pages

Introduction

part |40 pages

Is Racism Permanent?

chapter |6 pages

Put on a Happy Face

Masking the Differences Between Blacks and Whites

part |34 pages

Immigration

chapter |7 pages

Changing Relations

Newcomers and Established Residents in U.S. Communities

chapter |2 pages

Commentary

chapter |7 pages

Latino Immigrants in Los Angeles

A Portrait from the 1990 Census

chapter |3 pages

The Immigration Quiz

Applied Research Center

part |16 pages

“The Underclass”

chapter |5 pages

American Apartheid

Segregation and the Making of the Underclass

chapter |2 pages

The Welfare Quiz

World Hunger Year

chapter |3 pages

The Income and Jobs Quiz

World Hunger Year

part |20 pages

Multiculturalism

chapter |6 pages

Social History

Our Rudder in the Midst of Storms

part |32 pages

Affirmative Action

chapter |3 pages

Affirmative Action

The Questions to Be Asked

chapter |1 pages

Scapegoating

chapter |2 pages

Affirmative Action

Why Bosses Like It: The Economist

chapter |1 pages

The Presumption of Stupidity

Affirmative Action, Occupational Apartheid

chapter |2 pages

Affirmative Action

The Army's Success

part |34 pages

Democracy/Equality