American Democracy and the Pursuit of Equality

How can the United States meet the challenges of maintaining and building upon its democratic principles in the twenty-first century? The timely essays in this new book address many of the key issues of our time, among them changing immigration politics, antipoverty policies, and the future of U.S. cities and planning in a post-Katrina world. Contributors include Michael Schudson, Michael B. Katz, Peter Marcuse, William Julius Wilson, Stanley Aronowitz, Frances Fox Piven, Katherine Newman, Margaret Chin, and William Kornblum.

Acknowledgments	p. ix
Introduction	p. 1
The Social Scientist as a Human Being
On Getting People to Tell You More Than They Want to	p. 5
Fact and Fiction: Sociology and the Novel	p. 12
Urbanism and Suburbanism as Ways of Life
What is an American City?	p. 20
American Community in Transition	p. 43
Building the American Way: Public Subsidy, Private Space	p. 60
Towards an ôActive Socioplasticsö	p. 73
People, Plans, and Policies
The Right Hand and the Left Hand: Contradictory Social Policies in the Lives of the Working Poor	p. 99
Understanding the Emergence and Persistence of Concentrated Urban Poverty	p. 117
Ignoring Justice in Disaster Planning: An Agenda for Research on 9/11, Katrina, and Social Policy	p. 132
The Future of Ethnic Groups and Cultures in America
The Battle over Assimilation	p. 163
Assimilation's Bumpy Road	p. 184
Democracy and the News
The Concept of Politics in Contemporary United States Journalism	p. 220
Convergence: News Production in a Digital Age	p. 234
More Equality
Movements and Reform in Twentieth-Century America	p. 250
Contributor Biographies	p. 277
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