Challenges to Equality: Poverty and Race in America by Chester Hartman

Title	:	Challenges to Equality: Poverty and Race in America
Author	:	Chester Hartman
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ISBN	:	0765607263
ISBN-10	:	9780765607263
Language	:	English
Format Type	:	Hardcover
Number of Pages	:	336
Publication	:	First published December 23, 2000

Artioles and symposia on major controversial social 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.

Chester Hartman - Chester Hartman, an urban planner and author, is Director of Research for the Poverty Race Research Action Council (where he was founding Executive Director from 1989 2003) in Washington, DC, and Adjunct Professor, Dept. of Sociology, George Washington University. Prior to taking his present position, he was a Fellow of the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington, and of the Transnational Institute in Amsterdam. He holds a Ph.D. in City and Regional Planning from Harvard and served on the faculty there as well as at Yale, the University of North Carolina, Cornell, the University of California Berkeley, American University, and Columbia University. excerpted from
Chester Hartman, an urban planner and author, is Director of Research for the Poverty Race Research Action Council (where...

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