Center on Poverty, Work, & Opportunity
Topic: Special Populations (Minority Groups)
Components
• PowerPoint
• Terms & Concepts
• Documents and Readings
• Suggested Resources
o Websites (Interactive/Links)
o Video Clips
o Books & Films
Terms & Concepts
Affirmative Action
Affordable Care Act
Ageism
Alcoholism
Alien
Americans with Disabilities Act
Baby Boomers
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Coyote
Culture of Poverty
De facto segregation
De jure segregation
Differential justice
Disability
Discrimination
Double jeopardy
Dual labor market
East Durham Children’s Initiative
Education Gap
Exploitation
Feminization of Poverty
Gambling
Gender Roles
Glass Ceiling
High School Graduation Initiative
Homemaker
IGT Poverty
Immigrant
Informal economy
Institutional Racism
Medicaid
Medicare
Minority Group
Model Minority
Mommy tax
Mommy track
Pay equity
Pink Collar Job
Poverty
Racial Profiling
Recession
Remittances
Reservation
Retirement
Service Learning
Sexual Harassment
Slavery
Social Exclusion
Social Security
Stereotype
Stereotypes
Suffrage
Undocumented (illegal)
Wage Gap
Welfare
Documents/Readings:
• “Minority Children Four Times More Likely to Start Poor, Stay Poor” (Janell Ross,
Huffington Post): http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/04/06/minority-childrenstart-poor-stay-poor_n_845866.html
• “The State of Minorities in the Economy” (American Progress)
http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/race/report/2010/01/15/7131/the-stateof-minorities-in-the-economy/
• “Poverty in America: Why Can’t We End It?” (Peter Edelman, New York Times):
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/29/opinion/sunday/why-cant-we-end-povertyin-america.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
• “Top Densities of Minorities Show High Poverty Rates” (Sara Johnson, The Next
America) http://www.nationaljournal.com/thenextamerica/economy/top-densitiesof-minorities-show-high-poverty-rates-20130220
• “Why You May Retire in Poverty” (Mark Miller, Reuters):
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/08/07/us-column-miller-povertyidUSBRE8760VW20120807
• “Poverty Rates Higher for Blacks and Hispanics than Whites and Asians” (Carol
Morello, Washington Post): http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2013-0220/local/37193481_1_poverty-rates-blacks-hispanics
• “Poverty in America: 20 Percent of African Americans Live Without Bank
Accounts” (Atlanta BlackStar): http://atlantablackstar.com/2013/04/22/poverty-inamerica-20-percent-of-african-americans-too-broke-for-bank-accounts/
• “Native American Poverty” (Tom Rodgers, Spotlight on Poverty and Opportunity):
http://www.spotlightonpoverty.org/ExclusiveCommentary.aspx?id=0fe5c04e-fdbf4718-980c-0373ba823da7
• “Why Are Indian Reservations So Poor? A Look At The Bottom 1%” (John
Koppisch, Forbes): http://www.forbes.com/sites/johnkoppisch/2011/12/13/whyare-indian-reservations-so-poor-a-look-at-the-bottom-1/
Websites/Links
• Ethnic and Racial Minorities & Socioeconomic Status (American Psychological
Association): http://www.apa.org/pi/ses/resources/publications/factsheeterm.aspx
• Poverty in the United States – A Snapshot (National Center for Law and Economic
Justice): http://www.nclej.org/poverty-in-the-us.php
• Status and Trends in the Education of Racial and Ethnic Minorities (National Ceter
for Educational Statistics): http://nces.ed.gov/pubs2010/2010015/indicator1_4.asp
• The Colors of Poverty: Why Racial & Ethnic Disparities Persist (National Poverty
Center, The University of Michigan Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy)
http://www.npc.umich.edu/publications/policy_briefs/brief16/index.php
• 11 Facts About Education and Poverty in America (DoSomething.Org):
http://www.dosomething.org/tipsandtools/11-facts-about-education-and-povertyamerica
Video Clips
• Improving the Plight of Native Americans (Al Jazeera):
http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/insidestoryamericas/2012/12/2012126441
49886282.html
• Native Americans Living in Desperate Poverty (RT):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eqr9xsUn-ks
• Poverty USA: Native Americans (Al Jazeera):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dq0Joi1ELps
• Youth in the Economy: Violence, Poverty, Evictions on Rise (MPR News):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDLGd3TZTgM
• Asians Rock – What’s Your Story? (AsiaSociety):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWey0hhi3Dw&feature=fvw
• Barack Obama’s Speech on Fathers Day (Barack Obama):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hj1hCDjwG6M
• Dr. Cornel West: Poverty in America (Thom Hartmann):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QaaQmnsCM4Y
Suggested/Selected Resources: Books & Films
• A Framework for Understanding Poverty (Ruby K Payne)
• Poverty in America: A Handbook (John Iceland)
• Race, Poverty, and Social Justice: Multidisciplinary Perspectives Through Service
Learning (Jose Calderon, Gerald Eisman, and Robert Corrigan)
• Rethinking Social Policy: Race, Poverty, and the Underclass (Christopher Jencks)
• Savage Inequalities: Children in America’s Schools (Jonathan Kozol)
• The Colors of Poverty: Why Racial and Ethnic Disparities Exist (Ann Chih Lin and
David R. Harris)
• The Fruits of Their Labor: Atlantic Coast Farmworkers and the Making of Migrant
Poverty, 1870-1945 (Cindy Hahamovitch)
• The Kids Left Behind: Catching Up the Underachieving Children of Poverty (Robert
Barr)
• The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Michelle
Alexander and Cornel West)
• The Other America: Poverty in the United States (Michael Harrington)
• Unhealthy Cities: Poverty, Race, and Place in America (Kevin Fitzpatrick and Mark
LaGory)