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Acknowledgments | |
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Introduction: Black Women's Poverty Revisited | |
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The Black Churches in America | |
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The Problem of Advanced Capitalism | |
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The New Ways Black Poverty Articulates Itself | |
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Growth of an American Underclass | |
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The Goal and Structure of This Book | |
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Is the Black Church "Home" for Poor Black Women? | |
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The Black Church as an Institution | |
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The Black Church: A Prophetic Tradition? | |
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Surrogate World or Wilderness? | |
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A Community of Transcendence | |
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Saving Poor Black Women Faith-Based Initiatives | |
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Old Battles, New Directions | |
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A Return to Religious Involvement | |
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Do Faith-Based Initiatives Save Poor Black Women? | |
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We Too Are America | |
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Critique of Free-Market Ideology and Its Neo-liberal Interests | |
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Multiple Black Americas | |
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Historical Shifts toward a Post-Industrial Political Economy | |
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Falling through the Cracks | |
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Guilty until Proven Innocent | |
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An Unholy Alliance: Religious Values and Neo-liberal Logic in Welfare Reform | |
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The "Racializing" of Welfare Policy: A Silenced History | |
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The Regulation of Poor Black Women's Lives: The New Jane Crow | |
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Welfare Policy and Structural Violence | |
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The Unfinished Business of the Poor People's Campaign A New Gender and Sexual Politics | |
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The Black Church and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference | |
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The Last Crusade: The Emergence of the Poor People's Campaign Movement | |
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A New Kind of Prosperity Gospel | |
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The Poverty of Prosperity, Gospel Theology | |
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Tension between Hope and Blame | |
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Questioning the Capitalist Moment | |
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A New Prosperity Gospel? | |
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An Asset-Building Policy Approach | |
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The Norm of Participatory Parity | |
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Are Income-Based Paradigms Enough? | |
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The Problems of Asset Discrimination | |
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Asset-Building Policies for the Poor | |
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Epilogue: Building a Movement to End Poverty | |
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Notes | |
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Suggested Readings | |
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Index | |