Race, poverty, and domestic policy /

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What explains the continuing hardship of so many black Americans? The essays in this volume consider the impact of poverty, poor health, poor schools, poor housing, poor neighbourhoods & few job opportunities & demonstrate how multiple causes reinforce each other.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Henry, C. Michael
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2004.
Colección:Yale ISPS series.
Temas:
African Americans > Social conditions.
African Americans > Economic conditions.
Poverty > United States.
Equality > United States.
Noirs américains > Conditions sociales.
Noirs américains > Conditions économiques.
Pauvreté > États-Unis.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Ethnic Studies > African American Studies.
PHILOSOPHY > General.
Equality.
Poverty.
Race relations > Political aspects.
Social conditions
Social policy.
United States > Social conditions.
United States > Social policy.
United States > Race relations > Political aspects.
États-Unis > Conditions sociales.
États-Unis > Politique sociale.
États-Unis > Relations raciales > Aspect politique.
United States.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : Historical overview of race and poverty from Reconstruction to 1969 / C. Michael Henry
  • From income inequality to economic inequality / Amartya K. Sen
  • Racial and ethnic economic inequality : a cross-national perspective / William A. Darity, Jr.
  • Measuring poverty : issues and approaches / Daniel H. Weinberg
  • Medical spending, health insurance, and measurement of American poverty / Gary Burtless and Sarah Siegel
  • The dynamic racial composition of the United States / Tukufu Zuberi
  • The new geography of inequality in urban America / Douglas S. Massey
  • The disparate racial neighborhood impacts of metropolitan economic restructuring / George Galster, Ronald Mincy, and Mitch Tobin
  • The demise of a dinosaur : analyzing school and housing desegregation in Yonkers / Jennifer Hochschild and Michael N. Danielson
  • Suburban exclusion and the courts : can a class-based remedy reduce urban segregation? / Gary Orfield
  • Civil rights and the status of Black Americans in the 1960s and the 1990s / Reynolds Farley
  • Poverty, racism, and migration : the health of the African American population / David R. Williams
  • The American news media and public misperceptions of race and poverty / Martin Gilens
  • U.S. education and training policy : a reevaluation of the underlying assumptions behind the "new consensus" / James J. Heckman
  • The growing importance of cognitive skills in wage determination / Richard J. Murnane, John B. Willett, and Frank Levy
  • Escalating differences and elusive "skills" : cognitive abilities and the explanation of inequality / Samuel Bowles, Herbert Gintis, and Robert Szarka
  • Earnings of black and white youth and their relation to poverty / Philip M. Gleason and Glen G. Cain
  • Teenage childbearing and personal responsibility : an alternative view / Arline T. Geronimus
  • Where should teen mothers live? What should we do about it? / Harold Pollack
  • Family allowances and poverty among lone mother families in the United States / Cecilia A. Conrad
  • How much more can they work? Setting realistic expectations for welfare mothers / LaDonna Pavetti
  • Turning our backs on the New Deal : the end of welfare in 1996 / Jeffrey Lehman and Sheldon Danziger
  • Fighting poverty : lessons from recent U.S. history / Rebecca M. Blank
  • Crime, poverty, and entrepreneurship / Samuel L. Myers, Jr.
  • Violence and the inner-city street code / Elijah Anderson
  • Minority business development programs : failure by design / Timothy Bates
  • A social accounting matrix model of inner-city New Haven : an alternative framework for development / C. Michael Henry.

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