Authors’ Showcase and Book Signing
While at the summit, we invite you to come to our Authors’ Showcase and Book Signing, which is an opportunity to meet some of the summit panelists who have published books about issues related to social and economic justice. Books will be available for purchase and authors available to sign them. Below is a schedule of the great line-up of authors.
Preliminary Schedule
Monday May 23
2:45-3:45 Angela Glover Blackwell, Stewart Kwoh, Manuel
Pastor
3:45-4:45 Bruce Katz
4:45-5:45 Sheryll Cashin
Tuesday May 24
10:15-11:00 Ray Suarez
12:15-1:15 Bob Bullard
1:30-2:30 Liza Featherstone
3:00-4:00 Myron Orfield
4:00-5:00 David Rusk
Searching for the Uncommon Common Ground:
New Dimensions on Race in America
Angela Glover Blackwell, Founder and CEO, PolicyLink;
Stewart Kwoh, President and Executive Director, Asian Pacific
American Legal Center; and
Manuel Pastor, Executive Director, Center for Justice, Tolerance,
and Community,
University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC)
Searching for the Uncommon Ground, the fourth in The
American Assembly’s Uniting America Series, explores new
dimensions to the search for racial equity in the 21st century.
The three
authors identify solutions to continuing causes of inequity such
as the digital divide, an unfair criminal justice system, and
the negative racial impact of uncontrolled sprawl. The book challenges
Americans to aim for the highest levels of unity, the uncommon
common ground.
Highway Robbery: Transportation Racism & New
Routes to Equity
Robert Bullard, Ph.D, Ware Distinguished Professor of Sociology
and Director of the Environmental Justice Resource Center at
Clark Atlanta University
In the United States all communities do
not receive the same benefits from transportation advancements
and investments. Transportation
spending has always been about opportunity and equity. The modern
civil rights movement has its roots in transportation. For more
than a century, African Americans and other people of color have
struggled to dismantle transportation policies that promote and
exacerbate racial and economic disparities and social exclusion.
The decision to build highways, expressways, and beltways has
far-reaching effects on land use, energy policy, and the environment.
Similarly, the decisions by county commissioners to limit and
even exclude public transit to job-rich suburban economic activity
center have serious mobility implications for central city residents.
In an introduction and nine chapters, Highway Robbery presents
real case studies that call into question the fairness and legality
of many of our nation's transportation policies, practices, and
procedures and offers corrective solutions.
THE FAILURES OF INTEGRATION
How Race and Class Are Undermining the American Dream
Sheryll Cashin, Professor, Georgetown University Law Center
The Failures of Integration is a provocative look at how segregation
by race and class is ruining American democracy. Only a small
minority of the affluent are truly living the American Dream,
complete with attractive, job-rich suburbs, reasonably low taxes,
good public schools, and little violent crime. For the remaining
majority of Americans, segregation comes with stratospheric costs.
In a society that sets up "winner" and "loser" communities
and schools defined by race and class, racial minorities in particular
are locked out of the "winner" column. African-Americans
bear the heaviest burden.
Selling Women Short:
The Landmark Battle for Workers' Rights at Wal-Mart
Liza Featherstone, Journalist and Author
On television, Wal-Mart employees are smiling women delighted with their jobs. But reality is another story. In 2000, Betty Dukes, a 52-year-old black woman in Pittsburg, California, became the lead plaintiff in Dukes v. Wal-Mart Stores, a class action representing 1.4 million women. In an explosive investigation of this historic lawsuit, journalist Liza Featherstone reveals how Wal-Mart, a self-styled "family-oriented," Christian company exploits their employees.
Featherstone reveals the creative solutions Wal-Mart workers around the country have found-like fighting for unions, living-wage ordinances, and childcare options. Selling Women Short combines the personal stories of these employees with superb investigative journalism to show why women who work low-wage jobs are getting a raw deal, and what they are doing about it.
Redefining Urban and Suburban America Evidence from Census 2000
Bruce Katz, Vice President and Director, Metropolitan Policy
and the Adeline M. and Alfred I. Johnson Chair in Urban and
Metropolitan Policy, The Brookings Institution
The first volume in the Redefining Urban and Suburban America series focused on population growth and decline and dramatic
changes occurring in the racial and ethnic makeup of cities and
suburbs. This second volume focuses on an even richer set of
subjects from Census 2000 and makes clear that regional differences
add texture to these broader social and economic trends. Using
data from the Census “long form,” the contributors
probe migration, income and poverty, and housing trends in the
nation’s largest cities and metropolitan areas.
American Metropolitics: The New Suburban Reality and
Metropolitics: A Regional Agenda for Community and Stability
Myron Orfield, Executive Director, Institute on Race and Poverty,
University of Minnesota
Myron Orfield's, American Metropolitics, applies revolutionary mapping and demographic research to an eye-opening analysis of the economic, racial, environmental, and political trends of the 25 largest metropolitan regions in the United States. In Metropolitics: A Regional Agenda for Community Stability, Orfield does a through analysis of metropolitan development trends and concentrates on the example of Minneapolis/St. Paul, but is applicable around the United States. Orfield presents useful strategies for improving schools, creating affordable housing, and numerous other projects in addition to protecting the environment and quality of life.
Cities without Suburbs: a Census 2000 Update and Inside
Game/Outside Game
David Rusk, Author and Urban Policy Consultant, Former Mayor
of Albuquerque, New Mexico
Cities without Suburbs, first published in 1993, has become
an influential analysis of America's cities among city planners,
scholars, and citizens alike. It has been called "the Bible
of the regionalism movement" by the Congressional Quarterly.
This third edition is among the first books of any kind to employ
information from the 2000 U.S. census. While refining his argument
with new data covering the period from 1950 to 2000, Rusk assesses
the major trends of the 1990s, including the perceived rebound
of central cities, the impact of Hispanic and Asian immigration,
the growing similarities of older "inner-ring" suburbs
to central cities, and the emerging influence of faith-based
regional reform movements.
In Inside Game/Outside Game, Rusk argues that focusing solely
on programs aimed at improving inner-city neighborhoods ---
playing only the "inside game" --- is a losing strategy.
Achieving real improvement requires matching the "inside
game" with a strong "outside game" of regional
strategies to overcome growing fiscal disparities, concentrated
poverty, and urban sprawl. Rusk argues that state government
action is particularly critical where regions are highly fragmented
by many competing city, village, and township governments.
Rusk provides vivid success stories that demonstrate best practices
for these regional strategies along with recommendations for
building effective regional coalitions.
The Old Neighborhood: What We Lost in the Great Suburban Migration
1966-1999
Ray Suarez, Senior Correspondent, The NewsHour
In his book, The Old Neighborhood, Ray Suarez examines the social and economic factors that have turned our oldest and largest cities into urban orphans. He discusses how changes in race, religion, and economy have transformed our cities from clusters of close-knit communities to places where no one seems to want to live. The pedantic possibility of such a story is avoided through Suarez's artful use of personal experience and vignettes by current and former city residents.
Suarez selects the cities of Chicago, Philadelphia, Cleveland, and the District of Columbia for more in-depth analysis. The common thread tying together the plight of all of these cities is the phenomenon of "great white flight" and the willingness of realtors to profit from this fear and fact by "block busting" neighborhoods whenever a minority family moved in. Together with the decreased importance of the church as a cohesive mechanism and the loss of industry and the jobs it provides, Suarez chronicles how these cities have lost half their population in the last 50 years.
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