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Locked in the poorhouse : cities, race, and poverty in the United States / edited by Fred R. Harris and Lynn A. Curtis.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield, 2000, c1998.Edition: 1st pbk. edDescription: vii, 188 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0742509044 (pbk.)
  • 9780742509047 (pbk.)
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • HV6477 .L63 2000
Contents:
Kerner Report thirty years later / Fred R. Harris -- Urban poverty, welfare reform, and child development / Greg J. Duncan and Jeanne Brooks-Gunn -- Poverty as a public health issue : since the Kerner Report of 1968 / Gary Sandefur, Molly Martin, and Thomas Wells -- New urban poverty : consequences of the economic and social decline of inner-city neighborhoods / William Julius Wilson, James M. Quane, and Bruce H. Rankin -- Urban poverty, race, and the inner city : the bitter fruit of thirty years of neglect / Paul A. Jargowsky -- Race, violence, and justice since Kerner / Elliott Currie -- Racism and the poor : integration and affirmative action as mobility strategies / William L. Taylor -- Policy for the new millennium / Lynn A. Curtis.
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"A Milton S. Eisenhower Foundation update of the Kerner Commission report."

Includes bibliographical references (p. 155-177) and index.

Kerner Report thirty years later / Fred R. Harris -- Urban poverty, welfare reform, and child development / Greg J. Duncan and Jeanne Brooks-Gunn -- Poverty as a public health issue : since the Kerner Report of 1968 / Gary Sandefur, Molly Martin, and Thomas Wells -- New urban poverty : consequences of the economic and social decline of inner-city neighborhoods / William Julius Wilson, James M. Quane, and Bruce H. Rankin -- Urban poverty, race, and the inner city : the bitter fruit of thirty years of neglect / Paul A. Jargowsky -- Race, violence, and justice since Kerner / Elliott Currie -- Racism and the poor : integration and affirmative action as mobility strategies / William L. Taylor -- Policy for the new millennium / Lynn A. Curtis.