Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 804 pages) : illustrations, maps |
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The Yale ISPS series |
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Yale ISPS series
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Contents |
Introduction : Historical overview of race and poverty from Reconstruction to 1969 / C. Michael Henry -- From income inequality to economic inequality / Amartya K. Sen -- Racial and ethnic economic inequality : a cross-national perspective / William A. Darity, Jr. -- Measuring poverty : issues and approaches / Daniel H. Weinberg -- Medical spending, health insurance, and measurement of American poverty / Gary Burtless and Sarah Siegel -- The dynamic racial composition of the United States / Tukufu Zuberi -- The new geography of inequality in urban America / Douglas S. Massey -- The disparate racial neighborhood impacts of metropolitan economic restructuring / George Galster, Ronald Mincy, and Mitch Tobin -- The demise of a dinosaur : analyzing school and housing desegregation in Yonkers / Jennifer Hochschild and Michael N. Danielson -- Suburban exclusion and the courts : can a class-based remedy reduce urban segregation? / Gary Orfield -- Civil rights and the status of Black Americans in the 1960s and the 1990s / Reynolds Farley -- Poverty, racism, and migration : the health of the African American population / David R. Williams -- The American news media and public misperceptions of race and poverty / Martin Gilens -- U.S. education and training policy : a reevaluation of the underlying assumptions behind the "new consensus" / James J. Heckman -- The growing importance of cognitive skills in wage determination / Richard J. Murnane, John B. Willett, and Frank Levy -- Escalating differences and elusive "skills" : cognitive abilities and the explanation of inequality / Samuel Bowles, Herbert Gintis, and Robert Szarka -- Earnings of black and white youth and their relation to poverty / Philip M. Gleason and Glen G. Cain -- Teenage childbearing and personal responsibility : an alternative view / Arline T. Geronimus -- Where should teen mothers live? What should we do about it? / Harold Pollack -- Family allowances and poverty among lone mother families in the United States / Cecilia A. Conrad -- How much more can they work? Setting realistic expectations for welfare mothers / LaDonna Pavetti -- Turning our backs on the New Deal : the end of welfare in 1996 / Jeffrey Lehman and Sheldon Danziger -- Fighting poverty : lessons from recent U.S. history / Rebecca M. Blank -- Crime, poverty, and entrepreneurship / Samuel L. Myers, Jr. -- Violence and the inner-city street code / Elijah Anderson -- Minority business development programs : failure by design / Timothy Bates -- A social accounting matrix model of inner-city New Haven : an alternative framework for development / C. Michael Henry |
Summary |
What explains the continuing hardship of so many black Americans? The essays in this volume consider the impact of poverty, poor health, poor schools, poor housing, poor neighbourhoods & few job opportunities & demonstrate how multiple causes reinforce each other |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Notes |
Print version record |
Subject |
African Americans -- Social conditions.
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African Americans -- Economic conditions.
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Poverty -- United States
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Equality -- United States
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- African American Studies.
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PHILOSOPHY -- General.
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African Americans -- Economic conditions
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African Americans -- Social conditions
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Equality
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Poverty
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Race relations -- Political aspects
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Social conditions
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Social policy
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SUBJECT |
United States -- Social conditions. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140511
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United States -- Social policy.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140547
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United States -- Race relations -- Political aspects
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United States
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Form |
Electronic book
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Author |
Henry, C. Michael.
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ISBN |
9780300129847 |
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030012984X |
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1281722243 |
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9781281722249 |
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