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\"Companion to the Public television series: America's war on poverty.\", Includes bibliographical references, List of program profiles (p.viii) -- About this book (p.ix) -- Foreword / Daniel Schorr (p.xi) -- Introduction / Harry Hampton (p.xiii) -- Prologue: Everything has changed, except the way we think. Secession of the successful / Robert B. Reich (p.xvi) -- Poverty and power / James Jennings (p.xxv) -- Are we a humane nation? / Arthur I. Blaustein (p.xxix) -- pt. 1. When children are poor (p.2). Sawdust / Chris Offutt (p.4) -- What is poverty? / Carolyn Shaw Bell (p.14) -- So how did I get here? / Rosemary Bray (p.18) -- Sharers / Connie Porter (p.31) -- Excerpt from Bastard out of Carolina / Dorothy Allison (p.41) -- The circuit / Francisco Jimeńez (p.45) -- The manful life of Nicholas, 10 / Isabel Wilkerson (p 53) -- The lesson / Toni Cade Bambara (p.65), Cont.): Lessons for a new war on poverty / An interview with Marian Wright Edelman (p.76) -- pt. 2. Poverty, families, and friends (p.78). Getting nowhere / Tony Horwitz (p.80) -- Getting the facts of life / Paulette Childress White (p.88) -- On and then off welfare / an interview with Jacqueline Pope (p.99) -- Douglas, Wy

Author

Lavelle, Robert, 1954-;Blackside, Inc, Lavelle, Robert, 1954-; Blackside, Inc

Publisher

San Francisco : KQED Books

Published

1995

Language

EN

ISBN

9780912333373

Subjects

Social Science, Economics, Political Science