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.