| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
xiii, 223 p. : ill. ; 21 cm. |
| Note |
"The Kerner Report twenty years later." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
The 1967 riots and the Kerner Commission / Fred R. Harris -- The Kerner Report / John Herbers -- Poverty is still with us--and worse / David Hamilton -- Blacks, Hispanics, American Indians, and poverty--and what worked / Gary D. Sandefur -- The persistence of urban poverty / Terry K. Adams, Greg J. Duncan, Willard L. Rodgers -- Separate societies / Gary Orfield -- The ghetto underclass and the changing structure of urban poverty / William Julius Wilson ... [et al.] -- Thomas Jefferson, the Kerner Commission, and the Retreat of Folly / Lynn A. Curtis -- Race and poverty in the United States--and what should be done / 1988 Commission on the Cities. |
| Subject |
Urban poor -- United States.
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African Americans -- Economic conditions.
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United States -- Race relations.
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United States -- Economic conditions -- 1981-2001.
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United States. National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders.
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| Added Author |
Harris, Fred R., 1930-
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Wilkins, Roger W., 1932-
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| ISBN |
0679721002 (pbk.) |
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9780679721000 (pbk.) |
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0394574737 (hard) |
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9780394574738 (hard) |
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