Contents
The Kerner Commission Report Fifty Years Later: Revisiting the American Dream / Susan T. Gooden and Samuel L. Myers Jr.
Part I. The Kerner Commission in Context
How Does It Feel to Be a Problem? The Missing Kerner Commission Report / Keisha L. Bentley-Edwards, Malik Chaka Edwards, Cynthia Neal Spence, William A. Darity Jr., Darrick Hamilton, and Jasson Perez
From Bakke to Fisher: African American Students in U.S. Higher Education over Forty Years / Walter R. Allen, Channel McLewis, Chantal Jones, and Daniel Harris
Whither Whiteness? The Racial Logics of the Kerner Report and Modern White Space / Matthew W. Hughey
Measuring the Distance: The Legacy of the Kerner Report / Rick Loessberg and John Koskinen
Part II. Policing, Law, and Communities
Changes in the Policing of Civil Disorders Since the Kerner Report: The Police Response to Ferguson, August 2014, and Some Implications for the Twenty-First Century / Patrick F. Gillham and Gary T. Marx
The Effects of the Neighborhood Legal Services Program on Riots and the Wealth of African Americans / Jamein P. Cunningham and Rob Gillezeau
Part III. Urban Cities in Focus
Fifty Years After the Kerner Commission Report: Place, Housing, and Racial Wealth Inequality in Los Angeles / Melany De La Cruz-Viesca, Paul M. Ong, Andre Comandon, William A. Darity Jr., and Darrick Hamilton
The Evolution of Black Neighborhoods Since Kerner / Marcus D. Casey and Bradley L. Hardy
Detroit Fifty Years After the Kerner Report: What Has Changed, What Has Not, and Why? / Reynolds Farley