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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 | |