American Social Welfare Policy by 
Launching the War on Poverty by
Camelot confronts the culture of poverty -- The war on poverty task force -- Creating the community action program -- Employment versus poverty -- Rural programs -- The enactment of poverty legislation -- The office of economic opportunity: "the most action in town" -- The job corps -- The community action program -- An early success: Project Head Start -- Advocates for the poor : VISTA and the legal services program -- Delegated programs -- Challenges to Head Start -- The job corps under siege -- "Keeping the trash in one pile": legislative battles -- OEO's struggle to endure -- Epilogue and assessments.
Shakedown by
The author chronicles the rise of what he calls the New New Left, beginning with President Lyndon Johnson's War on Poverty in the 1960s, and lays the blame for the economic meltdown of the early twenty-first century to the bigger government and more public spending agenda of the political powerhouse.
Race, ethnicity, and place in a changing America by
Race, ethnicity, and place in a changing America: a perspective / J.W. Frazier -- Nightmarish landscapes: the Orwellian world of Malcolm X / J.A. Tyner -- Public policy impacts on school desegregation, 1970-2000 / J.R. Logan, D. Oakley, J. Stowell -- Racialized assimilation? Globalization, transnational connections, and U.S. immigration / W. Li, W. Yu -- Greek American ethnicity: persistence and change / S.T. Constantinou -- Historical and contemporary Black-American geographies / E.L. Tettey-Fio -- People on the move in the U.S.: Black movements and settlement structures / J.W. Frazier, R. Anderson, J. Hinojosa -- Opposite sides of the road: an analysis of African-American and Somali-Immigrant migration patterns in the U.S. / J.L. Newberry, J.T. Darden -- The formation of contemporary ethnic enclaves: little Ethiopia in Los Angeles and Washington, D.C. / E. Chacko, I. Cheung -- West Indian patterns in Broward County, Florida / J.W. Frazier -- Hispanics/Latinos in the United States / M.E. Reisinger -- Racial self identification among Brazilian immigrants in the U.S. and returnees in Brazil / A.P. Marcus -- Placing transnational migration: the socio-spatial networks of Bolivians in the U.S. / M. Price -- The accommodation of Mexicans in the southwest: a case study of San Antonio / R.C. Jones -- The Latinization of Allentown, Pennsylvania, 1970-2010 / M.E. Reisinger, J.W. Frazier, E.L. Tettey-Fio -- Asians in the United States: then and now / J.W. Frazier -- This land is my land: the role of place in Native Hawaiian identity / S.M. Kana'iaupuni, N. Malone -- Little Tokyo: historical and contemporary Japanese American identities / J.M. Smith -- Asians and Hispanics in the American south: the case of Tennessee / M. Sharma -- The invisible immigrants: Asian Indian settlement patterns and racial/ethnic identities / E.H. Skop, C.E. Altman -- Asian "Indian-ness" and place visibility: landscapes in Queens, N.Y. / J.W. Frazier, B. McGovern, N.F. Henry -- From "there" to "here": refugee resettlement in metropolitan America / A. Singer, J.H. Wilson -- "Starting with spoons": refugee migration and resettlement programs in Utica, New York / E.P. Kraly, P. Vogelaar -- The New African Americans: Liberians of war in Minnesota / E.P. Scott -- The geography of whiteness: Russian and Ukrainian "coalitions of color" in the Pacific Northwest / S.W. Hardwick, D. Miller
Social Welfare Policy by
This book examines the conceptual, historical and practical implications that various social policies in the United States have had on ethnic minorities.
Drawing the Line by
With the growth of the U.S national government under the Obama administration, the perennial debate over where to draw the line between public and private has come to the fore yet again. This time around, however, the stakes are higher than ever as unprecedented amounts of public money are poured into private corporations. In Drawing the Line, Andrew Stark takes a fresh and provocative look at how Americans debate the border between the public realm and the private. Are these arguments specific to policy and community, or do they reveal something bigger about politics and society?Having conduc.
Scandalous Politics by
Little work has been done to systematically analyze how high-profile incidents of child neglect and abuse shape child welfare policy making in the United States.
The Politics of Happiness by
During the past forty years, thousands of studies have been carried out on the subject of happiness. Some have explored the levels of happiness or dissatisfaction associated with typical daily activities, such as working, seeing friends, or doing household chores. Others have tried to determine the extent to which income, family, religion, and other factors are associated with the satisfaction people feel about their lives. The Gallup organization has begun conducting global surveys of happiness, and several countries are considering publishing periodic reports on the growth or decline of happ
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