| Edition |
Rev., updated ed. |
| Description |
xv, 351 pages ; 18 cm |
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text txt rdacontent |
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unmediated n rdamedia |
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volume nc rdacarrier |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
Includes material on education, illegitimacy, health care, housing, criminal justice, repression, and reform. |
| Contents |
The art of savage discovery: how to blame the victim -- Savage discovery in the schools: the folklore of cultural deprivation -- Mammy observed: fixing the Negro family -- The prevalence of bastards: illegitimate views of illegitimacy -- Learning to be poor: the culture of poverty cheesecake -- The hydraulics and economics of misery: the society for the prservation of disease -- Taking people out of Oak Street: slums, suburbs and subsidies -- Illegal order: the administration of injustice -- Counting Black bodies: riots, raids and repression -- In praise of loot and clout: money, power and social change. |
| Subject |
United States -- Social conditions -- 1960-1980.
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Blame -- Social aspects -- United States.
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Blame -- Social aspects.
(OCoLC)fst00834117
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Social conditions (OCoLC)fst01919811
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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Social Conditions -- United States. |
| Chronological Term |
1960-1980
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| ISBN |
0394717627 |
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9780394717623 |
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