The Long Shadow : Family Background, Disadvantaged Urban Youth, and the Transition to Adulthood /
West Baltimore stands out in the popular imagination as the quintessential "inner city"; gritty, run-down, and marred by drugs and gang violence. Indeed, with the collapse of manufacturing jobs in the 1970s, the area experienced a rapid onset of poverty and high unemployment, with few publ...
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New York :
Russell Sage Foundation,
[2014]
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- The long shadow and urban disadvantage
- The Baltimore backdrop
- Family disadvantage
- Neighborhood and school
- Transitioning to adulthood
- Socioeconomic destinations
- Origins to destinations across generations
- Stratification by race and gender
- Life-course perspective of urban disadvantage.