A PRRAC Publication (February 2006). The 3rd “Best of Poverty & Race” volume edited by Chester Hartman with a foreword by Rep. Jesse L. Jackson, Jr. Description: Features over six dozen pieces originally published in Poverty & Race between mid-2001 and 2005, with sections covering Race/Racism, Poverty, Education, Housing, Health, and Democracy. The 91 contributors to … [Read more...] about Poverty & Race in America: The Emerging Agendas (PRRAC, February 2006)
Publications
There is No Such Thing as a Natural Disaster: Race, Class, and Hurricane Katrina (Edited by Gregory Squires & Chester Hartman, 2006)
By Gregory Squires & Chester Hartman, ed., Routledge 2006. Synopsis: There is No Such Thing as a Natural Disaster is the first comprehensive critical book on the catastrophic impact of Hurricane Katrina on New Orleans. The disaster will go down on record as one of the worst in American history, not least because of the government’s inept and cavalier response. But it is … [Read more...] about There is No Such Thing as a Natural Disaster: Race, Class, and Hurricane Katrina (Edited by Gregory Squires & Chester Hartman, 2006)
Keeping the Promise: Preserving and Enhancing Housing Mobility in the Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher Program: Final Conference Report of the Third National Conference on Housing Mobility (PRRAC, December 2005)
A PRRAC Conference Report (December 2005). Edited by Philip Tegeler, Mary Cunningham, and Margery Austin Taylor. Excerpt: "This report is an attempt to capture—and update—the best insights of the Third National Conference on Housing Mobility, hosted by the Poverty & Race Research Action Council and held at the Urban Institute in December 2004. The authors represented in … [Read more...] about Keeping the Promise: Preserving and Enhancing Housing Mobility in the Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher Program: Final Conference Report of the Third National Conference on Housing Mobility (PRRAC, December 2005)
Launching the National Fair Housing Debate: A Closer Look at the 1966 Chicago Freedom Movement (Sara Asrat & Philip Tegeler, December 2005)
A PRRAC Report (December 2005). By Sara Asrat & Philip Tegeler. Read Report Here... Excerpt: "The struggle for open housing begun by the Chicago Freedom Movement in 1966 is still very much in progress, in Chicago and across the country. If the aims of the Freedom Movement were overly ambitious, one can only fault its leaders – as one black reader did in a letter to … [Read more...] about Launching the National Fair Housing Debate: A Closer Look at the 1966 Chicago Freedom Movement (Sara Asrat & Philip Tegeler, December 2005)
Lawyers and Social Change: Taking the Long View in Baltimore (Phillip Tegeler & Michael Sarbanes, September 2005)
By Phillip Tegeler & Michael Sarbanes (Next American City, September 2005). Excerpt: THIS PAST JANUARY, A FEDERAL JUDGE in Baltimore, Marvin Garbis, issued a major housing desegregation ruling that explores the ways in which many American metropolitan areas have become—and stay—so racially and economically segregated. The lawsuit, Thompson v. HUD, was filed by the … [Read more...] about Lawyers and Social Change: Taking the Long View in Baltimore (Phillip Tegeler & Michael Sarbanes, September 2005)
