Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Contributors; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1
  • Why Is American Poverty Still Colored in the Twenty-First Century? / Ann Chih Lin and David R. Harris; Part I
  • Group Identity and Group Outcomes; Chapter 2
  • The Dynamics of Discrimination / Devah Pager; Chapter 3
  • Justifying Inequality: A Social Psychological Analysis about Poverty and the Poor / Heather E. Bullock; Chapter 4
  • How Culture Matters: Enriching Our Understanding of Poverty / Michèle Lamont and Mario Luis Small; Part II
  • Nonracial Explanations for Racial Disparities in Poverty.
  • Chapter 5
  • How Educational Inequality Develops / George Farkas Chapter 6
  • Poverty, Migration, and Health / David R. Williams and Selina A. Mohammed; Chapter 7
  • Can Social Capital Explain Persistent Racial Poverty Gaps? / Lincoln Quillian and Rozlyn Redd; Part III
  • Policy, Race, and Poverty: Intentions and Consequences; Chapter 8
  • Race, Place, and Poverty Revisited / Michael A. Stoll; Chapter 9
  • Place, Race, and Access to the Safety Net / Scott W. Allard; Chapter 10
  • Punishment, Crime, and Poverty / Darren Wheelock and Christopher Uggen.
  • Chapter 11
  • Coloring the Terms of Membership / Joe Soss and Sanford F. SchramIndex.