Collected in this volume are the best articles and symposia from Poverty & Race, the bimonthly newsletter journal of The Poverty & Race Research Action Council (PRRAC), a Washington, DC-based national public interest organization founded in 1990. Poverty & Race in America includes over six-dozen works originally published between mid-2001 and 2005, many of which have been updated and revised. The contributors represent the best of progressive thought and activism on America's two most salient, and seemingly intractable, domestic problems-race and poverty. Divided into topical sections, this volume considers the issues of race, poverty, housing, education, health, and democracy. Poverty & Race in America is especially concerned with the links between and among these areas, both for purposes of analysis and policy prescriptions. Featuring a foreword by Congressman Jesse L. Jackson, Jr., this edited collection will be of great interest to policy makers and human rights activists and hopefully stimulate creative thought and action to bring an end to racism and poverty.

Contributions by: Congressman Jesse L. Jackson, Tim Wise, Eric Foner, James W. Loewen, James Johnson, W Richard Stephens, Ann Moss Joyner, Allan Parnell, Peter Wagner, Andrew Hartman, Marc Masuovsky, California Newsreel, Fred L. Pincus, Hilary Silver, Calvin L. Beale, Paul Jargowsky, Jared Bernstein, Jeff Chapman, William E. Spriggs, Robert Brand, Andrew T. Lamas, Gary Bass, Ellen Taylor, Catherine Paskoff Chang, Adam Hughes, Greg LeRoy, Alexander Polikoff, Paul L. Wachtel, john a. powell, Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh, Sheryll Cashin, George Galster, Libby Perl, David Rusk, Xavier de Souza Briggs, David Freund, Philip Tegler, Gregory D. Squires, Gus Newport, Mike Calhoun, Nikitra Bailey, Lisbeth B. Schorr, Linda Christensen, Stan Karp, Richard D. Kahlenberg, Gary Orfield, Theodore M. Shaw, Makani Themba-Nixon, Thomas J. Henderson, Richard Rothstein, Pedro A. Noguera, John H. Jackson, Jenice L. View, Wendy Puriefoy, Mark Simon, Krista Kafer, Dianne M. Piche, Tamar Ruth, Alison Leff, Rosa Smith, Brian Komer, Sharon Johnston, Michelle Kinley, Heidi Goldsmith, Ira Harkavy, Martin J. Blank, Derrick Z. Jackson, David Barton Smith, H Jack Geiger, Anthony Robbins, Wendy E. Parmet, Richard Daynard, Vernellia R. Randall, Joint Center Health