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Structural Racism
Suggested Readings
Aspen Institute, Applying a Structural Racism Framework: A Strategy for Community Level
Research and Action. The Aspen Institute Roundtable on Comprehensive Community Initiatives.
http://www.regionwise.org/main/pdfs/StructuralRacism.pdf

Barlow, Andrew. Between Hope and Fear: Globalization and Race in the United States.
Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2003.

Barnett, Jonathan. The Fractured Metropolis: Improving the New City, Restoring the Old City,
Reshaping the Region (New York: HarperCollins, 1995).

Berube, Alan and Bruce Katz. Katrina’s Window: Confronting Concentrated Poverty Across
America. The Brookings Institution, 2005.
http://www.brookings.edu/reports/2005/10poverty_berube.aspx

Bonilla-Silva, Eduardo. Racism Without Racists: Color-Blind Racism and the Persistence of
Racial Inequality in the United States. Rowman & Littlefield, 2006.

Brookings Institution. New Orleans after the Storm: Lessons from the Past, a Plan for the
Future. The Brookings Institution, 2005.
http://www.brookings.edu/reports/2005/10metropolitanpolicy.aspx

Brown, Michael K. et al. White-Washing Race: The Myth of a Color-Blind Society. University of
California Press, 2003.

Bullard, Robert D. “Addressing Urban Transportation Equity in the United States.” 31 Fordham
Urban Law Journal 1183 (2004).

Cashin, Sheryll D. “Localism, Self-interest, and the Tyranny of the Favored Quarter: Addressing
the Barriers to New Regionalism.” 88 Georgetown Law Journal 1985 (2000).

Center for Social Inclusion. Growing Together: Thriving People for a Thriving Columbia. 2008.
http://www.centerforsocialinclusion.org/PDF/Growing%20Together.pdf

Center for Social Inclusion. The Race to Rebuild: The Color of Opportunity and the Future of
New Orleans. 2006. http://www.centerforsocialinclusion.org/PDF/racetorebuild.pdf

Center for Social Inclusion, Thinking Change: Race, Framing, and the Public Conversation on
Diversity. http://www.diversityadvancementproject.org/media/ThinkingChange.pdf

Center for Social Inclusion. Triumph Over Tragedy: Leadership, Capacity and Needs in
Arkansas, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana and Mississippi After Hurricane Katrina and Rita.

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2007. http://www.centerforsocialinclusion.org/PDF/Triumph%20Over%20Tragedy-
%20Leadership%20Capacity%20and%20Needs.pdf

Ford, Richard Thompson. “The Boundaries of Race: Political Geography in Legal Analysis.”
107 Harvard Law Review 449 (1995).

Frazier, John W. et al. Race and Place: Equity Issues in Urban America. Boulder, CO:
Westview Press, 2003.

Katznelson, Ira. When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in
Twentieth-Century America. New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 2005.

Kochhar, Rakesh. The Wealth of Hispanic Households: 1996 to 2002. Pew Hispanic Center,
2004. http://pewhispanic.org/reports/report.php?ReportID=34

Logan, John R. Separate and Unequal: The Neighborhood Gap of Blacks and Hispanics in
Metropolitan America. Albany, NY: Lewis Mumford Center for Comparative Urban and
Regional Research, University of Albany (October 13, 2002).
http://www.s4.brown.edu/cen2000/SepUneq/SUReport/SURepPage1.htm

Loury, Glenn C. The Anatomy of Racial Inequality. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press,
2002.

Lui, Meizhu et al. The Color of Wealth: The Story Behind the U.S. Racial Wealth Divide. New
York: W.W. Norton & Co., 2006.

Massey, Douglas S. and Nancy A. Denton, American Apartheid: Segregation and the Making of
the Underclass. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1993.

Oliver, Melvin L. & Thomas M. Shapiro. Black Wealth/White Wealth: A New Perspective on
Racial Inequality. New York: Routledge, 2006.

Orfield, Myron and Thomas Luce, Minority Suburbanization and Racial Change Stable
Integration, Neighborhood Transition, and the Need for Regional Approaches. Institute on Race
& Poverty, 2005.
http://www.irpumn.org/uls/resources/projects/MinoritySubn_050605wMAPS.pdf

Pastor, Manuel et al. Regions That Work: How Cities and Suburbs Can Grow Together
University of Minnesota Press, 2000.

Poverty & Race Research Action Council, Structural Racism. Special Newsletter Issue.
November/December 2006. http://www.prrac.org/display_newsletter.php

powell, john a. “Whiteness: Some Critical Perspective: Dreaming of a Self Beyond Whiteness
and Isolation.” Washington University Journal of Law and Policy. Vol. 18. (2005)

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powell, john a. “Opportunity-Based Housing.” Journal of Affordable Housing and Community

Development Law 12, no. 2 (2003).

powell, john a. and K.M. Graham. “Urban Fragmentation as a Barrier to Equal Opportunity.” In
Rights at Risk: Equality in an Age of Terrorism. Report of the Citizens' Commission on Civil
Rights. 79-97 (2002).

Roediger, David. Working Toward Whiteness: How America’s Immigrants Became White. New
York: Basic Books, 2005.

Roediger, David. The Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of the American Working
Class. London and New York: Verso Books, 1999.

Rusk, David. Inside Game/OutsideGame: Winning Strategies for Saving Urban America.
Brookings Institution Press, 1999.

Schill, Michael H. and Susan M. Wachter, “The Spatial Bias of Federal Housing Law and
Policy: Concentrated Poverty in Urban America,” 143 University of Pennsylvania Law Review
1285 (1995).

Shapiro, Thomas M. The Hidden Cost of Being African American: How Wealth Perpetuates
Inequality. Oxford University Press, 2004.

Takaki, Ronald. Strangers from a Different Shore: A History of Asian Americans. Boston, MA:
Back Bay Books, 1998.

Wiley, Maya. “Race, Equity and Land Use Planning in Columbia, South Carolina.” In Growing
Smarter: Achieving Livable Communities, Environmental Justice and Regional Equity. MIT
Press, 2007.

Wiley, Maya. “Structural Racism and the Miseducation of Mississippians.” In Kirwan Institute
Update. Fall 2005/Winter 2006. http://kirwaninstitute.org/publicationspresentations/biannual-
newsletter.php