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Previous
Selections from the Urban Engagement Book
Club
Current calendar available
here.
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December 6, 2007
"The Moral Consequences of Economic
Growth"
by Benjamin M. Friedman
Download handout here ( ).
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November 1, 2007
"Hope Dies Last"
by Studs Terkel
Download handout here (). |
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October 4, 2007
"Our Endangered Values"
by Jimmy Carter
Download handout here (). |
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September 6, 2007
"An African Centered Response to Ruby
Payne's Poverty Theory"
by Dr. Jawanza Kunjufu
Download chart here (). |
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August 2, 2007
"God of the Oppressed"
by James Cone |
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July 5, 2007
"True Notebooks: A Writer's Year in
Juvenile Hall"
by Mark Salzman
Download handout here (). |
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June 7, 2007
"The Wisdom of Crowds"
by James Surowiecki |
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May 3, 2007
"Comeback Cities"
by Paul S. Grogan & Tony Proscio |
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April 5, 2007
"Democracy Matters"
by Cornell West |
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March 1, 2007
"Rules for Radicals"
by Saul Alinsky |
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February 1, 2007
"The Price of a Dream: The Story of
the Grameen Bank"
by David Bornstein
Download handout here (). |
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January
4, 2007
"The Latino Wave"
by Jorge Ramos |
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December 7, 2006
Working
by Studs Turkel |
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November 2, 2006
Without a Net: Middle Class And Homeless in
America: My Story
by Michelle Kennedy |
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October 5, 2006
Bait And Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit of the
American Dream
by Barbara Ehrenreich
Download handout here (). |
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September 7, 2006
American Theocracy
by Kevin Phillips |
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August 3, 2006
Urban Sanctuaries: Neighborhood Organizations
in the Lives and Futures of Inner City Youth
by Milbrey W. McLaughlin, Merita A. Irby, Juliet
Langman
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Th, July 6,
2006
"Growing
Up Empty: How Federal Policies are Starving
America’s Children,"
by Beth Shulman
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Th, June 1,
2006
"The
Betrayal of Work: How Low-Wage Jobs Fail 30
Million Americans and Their Families,"
by Beth Shulman
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Th,
May 4, 2006
"The Shame of the Nation :
The Restoration of Apartheid Schooling in
America,"
by
Jonathan Kozol |
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Th,
April 6, 2006
"American Dream:
Three Women, Ten Kids, and a Nation's Drive
to End Welfare," by
Jason Deparle
We also reviewed
Malcolm Gladwell's article, "Million Dollar
Murray" (link) |
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Th,
March 2, 2006
"The Price of Motherhood," by
Ann Crittenden
Presented by The Author.
(A
Partnership with the Women's Symposium
of the Southern Methodist University) |
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Th, February
2, 2006
"Critical
Condition : How Health Care in America
Became Big Business--and Bad Medicine,"
by
Donald L. Barlett and James B.
Steele
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Th, January
5, 2006
"Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By In
America," by Barbara Ehrenreich
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December 1,
2005
"Sprawl
Kills: How Blandburbs Steal
Your Time,
Health and Money" by Joel
Hirschhorn.
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November 3, 2005
Mama Might Be Better Off Dead:
The
Failure of Health Care in Urban America
By Laurie Kaye Abraham
INTRO:
Randy Mayeux also gave a brief
presentation on
"The
Moral Hazard Myth" by Malcolm Gladwell |
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October 6, 2005
Civic Culture
and Urban Change: Governing Dallas
By
Royce Hanson |
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September
2005
Imprisoning America: The Social Effects
of Mass Incarceration
By
Mary Pattillo, David Weiman and Bruce Western. |
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August 2005
The End of Poverty
By Jeffrey D. Sachs |
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July 2005
Rachel's Children - Homeless Families in
America
By Jonathan Kozol |
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June
2005
Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting
Together In The Cafeteria? And Other
Discussions on Race
By Dr. Beverly Tatum |
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May 2005
God's Politics: Why the Right Gets
it Wrong and the Left Doesn't Get It
By Jim Wallis |
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April 2005
Presumed Alliance: The Unspoken
Conflict Between Latinos and Blacks
By Nicolas Vaca |
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March 2005
Being Black, Living in the Red, By
Dalton Conley |
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February 2005
Building Suburbia: Green Fields and Urban
Growth, 1820-2000"
By Dolores Hayden |
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January 2005
The Careless Society – Community and its
Counterfeits
By John McKnight |
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December 2004
One Nation, Underprivileged, By Mark
Rank
See video
of presentation here:
http://www.halsamples.com/blog/files/2004/12/urban%
20engagement%20book%20club%2012-2-04.WMV
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November 2004
The Two-Income Trap: Why
Middle-Class Mothers and Fathers are Going
Broke
By Dr. Elizabeth Warren and Amelia Warren
Tyagi |
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October 2004
The Creative Habit: Learn it and Use it for Life
(A Practical Guide)
By Twyla Tharp (2004) |
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September 2004 (2 books)
Bowling Alone,
By Robert Putnam
Better Together, By Robert Putnam |
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August 2004
The Soul of Politics: A Practical and Prophetic
Vision for Change
By Jim Wallace (1994) |
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July 2004
How to Change the World: Social Entrepreneurs
and the Power of New Ideas
By David Bornstein (2004) |
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June 2004
When Work Disappears: The World of the New Urban
Poor
By William Julius Wilson (1997) |
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May 2004:
Sweet Charity? Emergency Food and the End of
Entitlement
By Janet Poppendieck (1998) |
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April 2004
The Working Poor (Invisible in America)
By David K. Shipler (2004)
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For info on the current book list, please
visit:
www.UrbanEngagement.org
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