Marion Orr is the Frederick Lippitt Professor of Public Policy and Professor of Political Science and Urban Studies at Brown University. He is the author of Black Social Capital: The Politics of School Reform in Baltimore, 1986–1999; co-author of The Color of School Reform: Race, Politics, and the Challenge of Urban Education; andeditor of Transforming the City: Community Organizing and the Challenge of Political Change, among other books. ¿¿Domingo Morel is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Rutgers University, Newark, and an affiliate member of Global Urban Studies and the Center on Law, Inequality, and Metropolitan Equity at Rutgers Newark. He is co-founder of the Latino Policy Institute at Roger Williams University and past president of the Rhode Island Latino Political Action Committee.