A way out : America's ghettos and the legacy of racism /

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After decades of hand-wringing and well-intentioned efforts to improve inner cities, ghettos remain places of degrading poverty with few jobs, much crime, failing schools, and dilapidated housing. Stepping around fruitless arguments over whether or not ghettos are dysfunctional communities that exac...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Fiss, Owen M.
Other Authors: Cohen, Joshua, 1951-, Decker, Jefferson, Rogers, Joel, 1952-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©2003.
Subjects:
Social problems > United States.
Inner cities > Government policy > United States.
Urban poor > Government policy > United States.
Occupational mobility > United States.
Problèmes sociaux > États-Unis.
Quartiers défavorisés > Politique gouvernementale > États-Unis.
Pauvres en milieu urbain > Politique gouvernementale > États-Unis.
Mobilité professionnelle > États-Unis.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Services & Welfare.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Human Services.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > General.
Inner cities > Government policy
Occupational mobility
Social problems
Urban poor > Government policy
United States
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • What should be done for those who have been left behind? / Owen Fiss
  • Down by law / Richard Ford
  • Communities, capital, and conflicts / Tracey L. Meares
  • Better neighborhoods? / Robert Coles
  • Beyond moralizing / J. Phillip Thompson
  • Creating options / Jennifer Hochschild
  • Exit and redevelopment / Gary Orfield
  • Relocation works / James E. Rosenbaum
  • Unlikely times / Alexander Polikoff
  • Against social engineering / Jim Sleeper
  • If Baldwin could speak / Steven Gregory
  • A task unfinished / Owen Fiss.

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