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The Urban Underclass
Author | : Christopher Jencks |
Publisher | : Brookings Institution Press |
Total Pages | : 508 |
Release | : 2001-08-09 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780815723462 |
Many believe that the urban underclass in America is a large, rapidly increasing proportion of the population; that crime, teenage pregnancy, and high school dropout rates are escalating; and that welfare rolls are exploding. Yet none of these perceptions is accurate. Here, noted authorities, including William J. Wilson, attempt to separate the truth about poverty, social dislocation, and changes in American family life from the myths that have become part of contemporary folklore.
Industrialization and Urbanization
Author | : Theodore K. Rabb |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 2014-07-14 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1400856558 |
Focusing on urban development and the influence of urbanization on industrialization, this volume reflects a radical rethinking of the traditional approaches to the development of cities. Originally published in 1981. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Urban America in the Eighties
Author | : United States. Panel on Policies and Priorities for Metropolitan and Nonmetropolitan Areas |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 132 |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : Cities and towns |
ISBN | : |
Urban America in the Eighties
Author | : Donald A. Hicks |
Publisher | : Transaction Publishers |
Total Pages | : 142 |
Release | : |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781412840781 |
First published in Washington by the President's Commission for a National Agenda for the Eighties in 1980.
Urban America in the Eighties
Author | : United States. Panel on Policies and Prospects for Metropolitan and Nonmetropolitan America |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 132 |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : Urban policy |
ISBN | : |
Intergovernmental Relations in the 1980's
Author | : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Governmental Affairs. Subcommittee on Intergovernmental Relations |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 440 |
Release | : 1981 |
Genre | : Government publications |
ISBN | : |
Poverty and the Underclass
Author | : William A. Kelso |
Publisher | : NYU Press |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 1994-10 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0814746586 |
Kelso analyzes how the persistence of poverty has reversed liberal and conservative positions during the last 30 years, suggests that the arguments of both the left and the right are misguided, offers new explanations for the persistence of poverty, and merges conservative, radical, and liberal ideas to suggest how the problem of poverty may be solved. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
L.A. City Limits
Author | : Josh Sides |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 310 |
Release | : 2004-01-27 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780520939868 |
In 1964 an Urban League survey ranked Los Angeles as the most desirable city for African Americans to live in. In 1965 the city burst into flames during one of the worst race riots in the nation's history. How the city came to such a pass—embodying both the best and worst of what urban America offered black migrants from the South—is the story told for the first time in this history of modern black Los Angeles. A clear-eyed and compelling look at black struggles for equality in L.A.'s neighborhoods, schools, and workplaces from the Great Depression to our day, L.A. City Limits critically refocuses the ongoing debate about the origins of America's racial and urban crisis. Challenging previous analysts' near-exclusive focus on northern "rust-belt" cities devastated by de-industrialization, Josh Sides asserts that the cities to which black southerners migrated profoundly affected how they fared. He shows how L.A.'s diverse racial composition, dispersive geography, and dynamic postwar economy often created opportunities—and limits—quite different from those encountered by blacks in the urban North.
The "Underclass" Debate
Author | : Michael B. Katz |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 516 |
Release | : 2018-06-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0691188548 |
Do ominous reports of an emerging "underclass" reveal an unprecedented crisis in American society? Or are social commentators simply rediscovering the tragedy of recurring urban poverty, as they seem to do every few decades? Although social scientists and members of the public make frequent assumptions about these questions, they have little information about the crucial differences between past and present. By providing a badly needed historical context, these essays reframe today's "underclass" debate. Realizing that labels of "social pathology" echo fruitless distinctions between the "deserving" and "undeserving" poor, the contributors focus not on individual and family behavior but on a complex set of processes that have been at work over a long period, degrading the inner cities and, inevitably, the nation as a whole. How do individuals among the urban poor manage to survive? How have they created a dissident "infrapolitics?" How have social relations within the urban ghettos changed? What has been the effect of industrial restructuring on poverty? Besides exploring these questions, the contributors discuss the influence of African traditions on the family patterns of African Americans, the origins of institutions that serve the urban poor, the reasons for the crisis in urban education, the achievements and limits of the War on Poverty, and the role of income transfers, earnings, and the contributions of family members in overcoming poverty. The message of the essays is clear: Americans will flourish or fail together.