Jobs and Economic Development in Minority Communities

"This book is highly recommended, and its in-depth treatment of the historical and social context of concentrated poverty and policy alternatives would make it particularly useful in a graduate seminar...The editors have done a remarkable job of putting together a volume in which each chapter seems to build on the examples and policy recommendations of the others. Rather than being an assortment of articles on a theme, the chapters together create a 'collective wisdom' of community economic development." Journal of American Ethnic History "Jobs and Economic Development in Minority Communities provides a state-of-the-art compilation of current thinking on the issue of minority economic development. Given the economic distress that continues to plague minority communities in the United States, the book will be of interest to a broad array of urban planners and scholars." The Journal of Planning Education and Research "The compendium's most valuable contribution is its challenge to prevailing assumptions about the regional character of job markets and best practices in workforce and enterprise development...Practitioners and applied scholars will find useful frameworks for promoting, designing, and implementing holistic, community-based metropolitan economic development plans. The collection's challenges to status quo thinking about 'best practices' translate into reasoned approaches for nongentrifying, nondisplacing, and economically and socially effective economic development." Economic Development Quarterly "[A]n extremely valuable addition to debates focused on stimulating jobs and economic development in minority communities. It importantly -- and quite correctly -- emphasizes the need to sensitize community development activities according to geographical, cultural, and socio-political contexts and the need for interventions to be both cross-cutting and multi-dimensional." - Journal of Town Planning Review, issue 4, 2008