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The price of paradise : the costs of inequality and a vision for a more equitable America /

"Many American communities, especially the working and middle class, are facing chronic problems: fiscal stress, urban decline, environmental sprawl, failing schools, mass incarceration, political isolation, disproportionate foreclosures, and severe public health risks. In The Price of Paradise...

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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Troutt, David Dante
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: New York : New York University Press, [2013]
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Table des matières:
  • Mutuality : the thief, the preacher, and the late-night lawyer
  • All this I made myself : assuming that middle-class lives are self-sufficient
  • Keep your distance : assuming that middle-class status requires distance from the poor
  • The promise half empty : assuming that segregation is a thing of the past
  • We renamed the problem and it disappeared : assuming that racism no longer limits minority chances
  • Islands without paradise : assuming that poverty results from weak values and poor decisions
  • Raceless wonders : assuming that racial labels no longer matter
  • The cost of inequality and a vision for a more equitable America.