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"A provocative and powerful collection of eclectic writings on the central moral issue of our times". -- Jonathan Kozol, author of Amazing Grace: The Lives of Children and the Conscience of a Nation
"Double Exposure delivers a double dose of smart writing, controlled anger, and devasting common sense". -- Barbara Ehrenreich, author of Worst Years of Our Lives: Irreverent Notes from a Decade of Greed
This book provides the most up-to-date and comprehensive review of the major topics surrounding our country s most troublesome and seemingly intractable social problem: the intersection of race and poverty.
The sixty-three contributions -- by some of the nation's leading thinkers and activists (Nathan Glazer, Roger Wilkins, Senator Bill Bradley, Brent Staples, Congresswoman Maxine Waters, Manning Marable, Howard Winant, Benjamin DeMott, Max Frankel, Herbert Gans, Henry Hampton, Julian Bond, and many others), representing a variety of disciplines and backgrounds -- are organized under seven key topics: affirmative action; the "permanence of racism" thesis; the use and utility of racial and ethnic categories; multiculturalism; immigration; the "underclass" debate; and democracy/equality.
List of contents
Introduction; Is Racism Permanent?; Put on a Happy Face; The New International Dynamics of Race; Racial/Ethnic Categories; One Drop of Blood; The Limitations of Directive 15; The Error of the Third Type; Categories Count; At the Races; Accurate Racial/Ethnic Data Should Drive Category Review; A Single Census Question to Measure Race, Spanish Origin, and Ancestry; On the Census Race and Ethnic Categories; Who Thought of Dropping Racial Categories, and Why?; Immigration; An International Perspective on Migration; Changing Relations; Commentary; Immigration and the Civil Rights Movement; Job Competition Between Immigrants and African Americans; Latino Immigrants in Los Angeles; The Immigration Quiz; “The Underclass”; American Apartheid; Fighting the Biases Embedded in Social Concepts of the Poor; The Welfare Quiz; The Income and Jobs Quiz; Multiculturalism; Racism and Multicultural Democracy; The Debate on Multiculturalism; Social History; Affirmative Action; Affirmative Action; Racism Has Its Privileges; Scapegoating; Affirmative Action; The Presumption of Stupidity; Reaffirm the Affirmative; Affirmative Action; Affirmative Action, R.I.P.; The Affirmative Action Quiz; Reparations; Democracy/Equality; Race, Wealth, and Inequality in America; Respect!; Reuniting City and Suburb; Commentaries; The Economic Inequality Quiz
Summary
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.
