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Political, Cultural and Civic Life

Allport, G. (1954). The nature of prejudice. Reading, MA, Addison-Wesley.

Andersen, M.L. and Collins, Patricia Hill. (1995). Race, class, and gender: An anthology. Belmont, CA, Wadsworth Publishing Company.

Augenbraum, Harold and Stavans, Ilan, Eds. (1993). Growing up Latino. Boston: Houghton Mifflin.

Barndt, J. (1990). Dismantling racism: The continuing challenge to white America. Philadelphia, PA, Augsberg Press.

Batts, V. (1998, May) Modern racism: New melody for the same old tunes. Eds. Occasional Papers, Episcopal Divinity School.

Bell, Derrick (1989). And we are not saved. New York, Basic Books.

Bell, Derrick (1992). Faces at the bottom of the well: The permanence of racism. New York, Basic Books.

Bennet, M. (1986). A developmental appraoch to training and intercultural sensitivity. International Journal of Intercultural Relations. (10) 179-196.

Bennett, L. (1993). Before the Mayflower: A history of black America. New York, Penguin Books.

Brown, Dee. (1991). Bury my heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian history of the American west. New York, Holt & Company.

Clark, Don. (1990). The new loving someone gay. Berkeley, CA, Celestial Arts.

Dalton, H. (1995). Racial healing: Confronting the fear between Blacks and Whites. New Anchor Books.

Dawson, Michael C. (1994). Behind the mule: race and class in African American politics. Princeton University Press.

Delgado, R. (2000). Critical race theory: The cutting edge. Philadelphia, Temple University Press.

De Tocqueville, Alexis. 1969. Democracy in America, trans. George Lawrence, Anchor Books.

DuBois, W.E.B. (1990). The souls of Black folk. Vintage Books.

Faludi, Susan (1991). Backlash: The undeclared war against American women. New York, Crown Publishers

Feagin, J. (2000). Racist America: Roots, current realities, and future reparations. New York, Routeledge.

Feelings, Tom. (1995). The middle passage. New York, Dial Books.

Frankenberg, Ruth. (1993). White women, race matters: The social construction of whiteness. Minneapolis, University of Minnesota Press.

Freire, P. (1972). Pedagogy of the oppressed. New York, Herder and Herder.

Giddings, Paula (1985). When and where I enter: The impact of Black women on race and sex in America. New York, Bantam.

Gould, Stephen Jay (1996). The mismeasure of man. New York, W. W. Norton.

Hacker, A. (1992). Two nations: Black and White, separate, hostile, unequal. New York, Scribnerıs.

Haymes, Stephen Nathan. (1995). Race, culture and the city: A pedagogy for Black urban struggle. State University of New York Press.

hooks, bell (1989). Talking back. South End Press.

hooks, bell (1990). Yearning. South End Press.

hooks, bell (1994). Teaching to transgress. New York, Routeledge.

hooks, bell (1994). Killing rage: Ending racism. New York, Henry Holt & Co.

Katz, Judy (1978). White awareness: Handbook for anti-racism training. Norman, Oklahoma, University of Oklahoma Press.

Kivel, Paul (1996). Uprooting racism. Philadelphia, New Society Publishers.

Kelley, Robin. (1997). Yo'mama's disfunktional!: Fighting the cultural wars in urban America. Beacon Press.

Kochman, T. (1981). Black and White styles in conflict. Chicago, University of Chicago Press.

Lawrence-Lightfoot, Sara (1994). I've known rivers: Lives of loss and liberation. New York, Penguin.

Lim, Shirley Geok-lin, Tsutakawa, Mayumi, & Donnelly, Margarita (1989). The forbidden stitch: An Asian American women's anthology. Corvallis, OR, Calyx Books.

Loewen, J (1995). Lies my teacher told me: Everything your American history textbook got wrong. Simon & Schuster.

Lorde, Audre (1988). A burst of light. Ithica, Firebrand press.

Lorde, Audre (1984). Sister outsider. Freedom, California, The Crossing Press.

McIntosh, P. (1989, July/August). White privilege: Unpacking the invisible knapsack. Peace and Freedom Magazine.

Nieto, Sonia (1992). Affirming diversity: The sociopolitical context of multicultural education. New York, Longman.

Omi, M. & Winant, H (1994). Racial formation in the United States: From the 1960s to the 1990s. New York, Routeledge.

Ponterotto, J. & Pederson, P. (1993). Preventing prejudice: A guide for counselors and educators. Newbury Park, Sage Publications.

Putnam, Robert D. (1993). Making democracy work: Civic traditions in modern Italy. Princeton University Press.

Rothenberg, P. (1988). Racism and sexism, an integrated study. St. Martin's Press.

Schoene, L. & DuPraw, M. (1994). Facing racial and cultural conflict: Tools for rebuilding community. (2nd Ed.). Washington, D.C., Program for Community Problem Solving.

Smith, Lillian (1978). Killers of the dream. New York, Norton.

Stack, Carol. (1974). All our kin. Basic Books.

Storm, Hyemeyohsts (1972). Seven arrows. New York, Ballantine.

Study Circles Resource Center, (1997). Toward a more perfect union in an age of diversity: A guide for building stronger communities through public dialogue.

Takaki, Ronald (1990). Strangers from a different shore: A history of Asian Americans. New York, Penguin.

Takaki, Ronald (1993). A different mirror: A history of multicultural America. Boston, Little, Brown & Co.

Takaki, Ronald (1994). From different shores: Perspectives on race and ethnicity in America. (2nd ed.). New York, Oxford University Press.

Tannen, Deborah (1990). You just don't understand. New York, William Morrow and Company.

Tatum, B.D. (1997). "Why are all the Black kids sitting together in the cafeteria?" and other conversations about race. New York, Basic Books.

Terkel, Studs (1992). Race: How Blacks and Whites feel about the American obsession. New York, The New Press.

West, Cornel (1993). Race matters. Boston, Beacon Press.

Williams, Patricia (1991). The alchemy of race and rights. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press.

Williams, Patricia (1995). The rooster's egg on the persistence of prejudice. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press.

Wishik, Heather & Pierce, Carol (1995). Sexual orientation and identity: Heterosexual, lesbian, gay, and bisexual journeys. Laconia, New Hampshire, New Dynamics Publications.

Zinn, Howard (1980). A people's history of the United States: 1492-present. New York, Harper.

Social Policy

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Bane, Mary Jo and David Ellwood (1994). Welfare realities: From rhetoric to reform. Harvard University Press.

Chisom, R. & Washington, M. (1997) Undoing racism: A philosophy of international social change. The Peopleıs Institute Press.

Clark, Kenneth B. (1965). Dark ghetto: dilemmas of social power. Harper and Row.

Freeman, Richard B. (1999). The new inequality: Creating solutions for poor America. Beacon Press.

Katz, Michael B. (1989). The undeserving poor: From the war on poverty to the war on welfare. New York: Pantheon Books.

Moynihan, Daniel Patrick (1965). The Negro family: The case for national action. [The Moynihan Report] Washington, DC: Office of Policy Planning and Research, US Department of Labor.

Piven, Frances Fox and Richard A. Cloward (1971) (reprinted 1993). Regulating the poor: The functions of public welfare. Vintage Books.

Wilson, William Julius. (1987). The truly disadvantaged: The inner city, the underclass and public policy. University of Chicago Press.

Neighborhood Conditions, Housing and Education

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Abramsky, Sasha (1999). When they get out: How prisons, established to fight crime, produce crime. The Atlantic Monthly (June).

Anderson, Elijah (1999). Streetwise: Race, class and change in an urban community. University of Chicago Press.

Delpit, Lisa. (1995). Other people's children: Cultural conflict in the classroom. The New Press.

DuBois, W.E.B. (1899) (originally printed). The Philadelphia negro: A social study. University of Pennsylvania Press.

Jargowsky, Paul A. (1997). Poverty and place: Ghettos, barrios, and the American city. Russell Sage Foundation.

Kotlowitz, Alex (1991). There are no children here: The story of two boys growing up in the other America. Anchor Books.

Kozol, Jonathan (1991). Savage inequalities: Children in America's schools. Crown Publishers.

Massey, Douglas S. and Denton, Nancy A. (1993). American apartheid: Segregation and the making of the underclass. Harvard University Press.

Orenstein, Peggy (1994). School girls: Young women, self-esteem, and the confidence gap. New York, Doubleday.

Sadker, Myra & Sadker, David (1994). Failing at fairness: How our schools cheat girls. New York, Simon & Schuster.

Sugrue, Thomas J. 1996. The origins of the urban crisis: Race and inequality in postwar Detroit. Princeton University Press.

Employment and Labor Market Opportunities

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Coleman. James S. (1988). Social capital in the creation of human capital. American Journal of Sociology. Supplement.

Cose, Ellis. (1993). The rage of a privileged class. New York, HarperCollins.

Freeman, Richard R. and Harry J. Holzer, eds. (1986). The Black Youth Employment Crisis. University of Chicago Press.

Holzer, Harry J. (1999). What employers want: Job prospects for less educated workers. Russell Sage Foundation.

Ihlanfeldt, Keith R. (1999). Are poor people really excluded for jobs located in their own neighborhoods? Comments on Reingold and some additional evidence from the multi city study of urban inequality. Economic Development Quarterly (November).

Kain, John F. (1992). The spatial mismatch hypothesis: Three decades later. Housing Policy Debate 3 (2) 371--469.

Kirschenman, Joleen and Kathryn M. Neckerman (1991). "We'd Love to Hire Them But..." the Meaning of Race for Employers". Jencks and Peterson (editors), The Urban Underclass, The Brookings Institute.

Kretzmann, J. & McKnight (1993). Building communities from the inside out: A path toward finding and mobilizing a community's assets. Chicago, ACTA Publications.

Meiklejohn, Susan Turner (1999). "Has discrimination disappeared? A response to William Julius Wilson". Economic Development Quarterly (November).

Putnam, Robert D. (1995). Bowling alone: America's declining social capital. Journal of Democracy (6) No. 1.

Reingold, David A. (1999). Inner city firms and the employment problem of the urban poor: Are poor people really excluded from jobs located in their neighborhoods? Economic Development Quarterly (November).

Shulman, Steven (1991). "Why is the Black unemployment rate always twice as high as the White unemployment rate?". Cornwall and Wunnaya eds. New Approaches to Economic and Social Analyses of Discrimination. Praeger.

Waldinger, Roger (1996). Still the promised city? African-Americans and new immigrants in postindustrial New York. Harvard University Press.

Wilson, William Julius (1996). When work disappears: Thee world of the new urban poor. Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.

Economic Development and Urban Revitalization

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Boston, Thomas D. and Catherine L. Ross (1997). The inner city urban poverty and economic development in the next century. Transaction Publishers.

Galster, George C. (1997). A cumulative causation model of the underclass: Implications for urban economic development policy. Galster and Hill, eds. The Metropolis in Black and White. Rutgers University Press.

Harrison, Bennett and Amy Glasmeier (1997). Why businesses alone won't redevelop the inner city: A response to Porter's competitive advantage of the inner city. Economic Development Quarterly.

Keating, Dennis, Norman Krumholz and Philip Star (1996). Revitalizing Urban Neighborhoods. University Press of Kansas.

Porter, Michael (1995). The competitive advantage of the inner city. Harvard Business Review.

Squires, Gregory D. (1989). Unequal partnerships. Rutgers University Press.

Broad Analytical Perspectives

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Bobo, Lawrence, Kluegel R., & Smith (1997). Laissez-faire racism: The crystalization of kinder, gentler, antiblack ideology. Tuch and Martin, Racial Attitudes in the 1990s: Continuity and Change, Praeger.

Burman, Stephen (1995). The black progress question: Explaining the African American predicament. Sage Publication Series on Race and Ethnic Relations, Volume 9.

Danzinger, Sheldon H., Sandefur G., and Weinberg, D. (1994). Confronting poverty: Prescriptions for change. Russell Sage Foundation.

Marable Manning (1995). Beyond Black & White. Verso.

Myrdal, Gunnar (1944). An American dilemma: the Negro problem and modern democracy. Volume I & II, Harper & Brothers Publishers

Oliver, Melvin L. and Shapiro, T. (1995). Black wealth, White wealth: A new perspective on racial inequality. Routledge.

Pincus, Fred L (1996). Discrimination comes in many forms: Individual, institutional and structural. The American Behavioral Scientist (Nov/Dec).

Shulman, Steven (1990). The causes of Black poverty: Evidence and interpretation. Journal of Economic Issues, December, Vol. X~IV, No. 4.

Steinberg, Stephen (1995). Turning back: The liberal retreat from racial justice in American thought and social policy. Beacon Press.

Promising Practices, Directories, and Resource Guides on Race Relations

Center for Living Democracy (1997). Interracial dialogue groups across America: A directory. Hadley Mass, Center for Living Democracy.

Delgado, G. (1992, September). Anti-racist work: An examination and assessment of organizational activity. Oakland, CA, Project Change.

National Conference on Community and Justice (1998). Intergroup relations in the United States: Seven promising Practices. New York.

National Conference on Community and Justice (1999). Intergroup relations in the United States: Programs and organizations. New York, National Conference on Community and Justice.

Presidentıs Initiative on Race (January, 1999). Pathways to one America in the 21st century: Promising practices for racial reconciliation. Washington, D.C., Government Printing Office.

Project Change (2000). Anti-racism resource guide. Oakland, CA, Project Change.

Schoene, L. & DuPraw, M. (1994). Facing racial and cultural conflict: Tools for rebuilding community. (2nd ed.). Washington, D.C, Program for Community Problem Solving.

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