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Author Duncan, Cynthia M.

Title Worlds apart : why poverty persists in rural America / Cynthia M. Duncan ; with a foreward by Robert Coles.

Imprint New Haven : Yale University Press, c1999.

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 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  305.569 D912w    ---  Available
Description xvii, 235 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 223-228) and index.
Contents Blackwell : rigid classes and corrupt politics in Appalachia's coal fields -- Dahlia : racial segregation and the planter control in the Mississippi Delta -- Gray Mountain : equality and civic involvement in northern New England -- Social change and social policy.
Subject Poverty.
Rural poor -- Interviews.
United States -- Rural conditions.
United States -- Social conditions -- 1980-
Added Author Coles, Robert.
ISBN 0300076282 (cloth : alk. paper)

 
    
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