Description

How can the United States meet the challenges of maintaining and building upon its democratic principles in the twenty-first century? The timely essays in this new book address many of the key issues of our time, among them changing immigration politics, antipoverty policies, and the future of U.S. cities and planning in a post-Katrina world. Contributors include Michael Schudson, Michael B. Katz, Peter Marcuse, William Julius Wilson, Stanley Aronowitz, Frances Fox Piven, Katherine Newman, Margaret Chin, and William Kornblum.

Author Info

Merlin Chowkwanyun is a PhD student in the Department of History at the University of Pennsylvania.

Randa Serhan is a PhD student in the Department of Sociology at Columbia University. She graduated with high distinction from the American University of Beirut.