ISBN: 9780226901312

Edition: Paperback edition.

Description: xi, 254 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-247) and index.

Contents:

• part1. The ghetto underclass, poverty, and social dislocations: Cycles of deprivation and the ghetto underclass debate
• Social change and social dislocations in the inner city
• Poverty and family structure: the widening gap between evidence and public policy issues (with Kathryn Neckerman)
• Joblessness versus welfare effects: a further reexamination (with Robert Aponte and Kathryn Neckerman)
• part2. The ghetto underclass and public policy: Race-specific policies and the truly disadvantaged
• The limited visions of race relations and the war on poverty
• The hidden agenda
• Appendix: Urban poverty: a state-of-the-art review of the literature (with Robert Aponte)

LCCN: 87010822

Control Number: 3242729

Subjects:

• African Americans -- Economic conditions.
• African Americans -- Social conditions.
• Inner cities -- United States.
• United States -- Race relations.
• Urban policy -- United States.
• Urban poor -- United States.