Planners and policy makers need to reformulate community economic development in ways that account for the particularities of different minority groups. This book considers these challenges by examining case studies of economic development and job creation in different physical and social settings across the nation.

Community economic development offers a promise of greater employment, but job opportunities have been slow to develop in minority neighbourhoods. After decades of efforts to combat poverty, wages are low, benefits are scarce, and employment is unstable in these communities. The structural forces that have created impoverished neighbourhoods are likely to become even more powerful as globalization intensifies, economic and spatial restructuring continues, and the ethnic composition of the population changes. Planners and policy makers need to rethink and reformulate community economic development in ways that account for the particularities of different minority groups. A problem as pervasive and entrenched as structural unemployment cannot be approached with a "fits all" strategy. This book considers these new challenges by examining case studies of economic development and job creation in different physical and social settings across the nation to forge a new agenda for community economic development in minority neighbourhoods.

1: Introduction: Jobs and Economic Development in Minority Communities
Realities, Challenges, and Innovation (Ong, P. and Loukaitou-Sideris, A.)
Part I:
The Context
2: Metropolitan Dispersion and Diversity: Implications for Community Economic Development (Blumenberg, E.)
3: Impacts of the New Social Policy Regime (Houston, D. and Ong, P.)
Chapter 4: The Regional Nexus: The Promise and Risk of Community-Based Approaches to Metropolitan Equity (Pastor, M., Benner, C., and Matsuoka, M.)
Part II:
Labor Market Development
5: Workforce Development in Minority Communities (Stoll, M.)
6: Employment Opportunities Beyond the 'hood: African American and Hispanic Applicants in Atlanta, Los Angeles, New York, and Philadelphia (Zonta, M.)
7: Economic Development in Latino Communities: Incorporating Marginal and Immigrant Workers (Valenzuela, A)
Part III:
Business Development
8: The Role of Black-owned Businesses in Black Community Development (Boston, T.)
9: New York City's Asian Immigrant Economies: Community Development Needs and Challenges (Hum, T.)
10: Indian Gaming as Community Economic Development (Jojola, T. and Ong, P.)
Part IV:
Complementary Strategies
11: Social Networks and Social Capital: Latinos in Pico Union (Loukaitou-Sideris, A. and Hutchinson, J.)
12: Linking Housing to Community Economic Development with Community Benefits Agreements: The Case of the Figueroa Corridor Coalition for
Economic Justice
(Leavitt, J.)
13: Synchronizing Social Services with Labor Market Participation: Implications for Community Economic Development in Minority Neighborhoods (Takahashi, L)
14 Conclusion: Lessons for Community Economic Development (Loukaitou-Sideris, A. and Ong, P.)