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Dark ghettos : injustice, dissent, and reform /

"Why do ghettos persist?" Tommie Shelby asks in Dark Ghettos. Today, ghettos are widely seen as social problems that public policy should aim to solve. Shelby calls this the "medical model" because it portrays ghettos as sick patients in need of treatment. In his view, this model...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Shelby, Tommie, 1967- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2016.
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Rethinking the problem of the ghetto
  • Part I. Liberty, equality, fraternity. Injustice ; Community ; Culture
  • Part II. Of love and labor. Reproduction ; Family ; Work
  • Part III. Rejecting the claims of law. Crime ; Punishment ; Impure dissent
  • Epilogue: Renewing ghetto abolitionism.