Cities and race : America's new black ghetto / David Wilson.

Author/creator Wilson, David, 1956-
Format Book
Publication InfoLondon ; New York : Routledge, 2007.
Descriptionxi, 175 pages ; 24 cm.
Supplemental ContentTable of contents only
Supplemental ContentPublisher description
Subjects
Urban poor--United States.
African Americans--Economic conditions.
African Americans--Social conditions.
Inner cities--United States.
Urban policy--United States.
United States--Race relations.

SeriesQuestioning cities series
Questioning cities series. ^A583196
Contents Glocal black ghetto emergence -- Introduction -- The frame -- An uneasy global trope -- Perspective and definitions -- Rise of glocal ghetto -- The beginning -- Things get worse, 1965-1980 -- The Reagan 1980s -- The post 1990 global obsession -- Formation of the global ghetto -- The global trope -- The new spaceless entrepreneur -- Problem inner cities -- New heroic mayors as salvationists -- The result -- Current ghetto dynamics -- Glocal ghetto changes -- Introduction -- Deepened deprivation -- The new stigma and marginalization -- The new ambiguous ghetto-prison connection -- Recent sustaining - Bush policy effects -- Introduction -- Bush urban policy -- Faith-based interventions -- Changed workfare -- No child left behind -- The future federal role : block grants -- The active black ghetto -- Ghetto responses -- Introduction -- Resistance to the glocal ghetto -- The outcome -- The crisis of the rust belt black ghetto -- A new uneven development? -- References.
General note"Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada by Routledge."
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [152]-169) and index.
LCCN 2006009658
ISBN0415358051 (hbk.)
ISBN9780415358057 (hbk.)
ISBN041535806X (pbk.)
ISBN9780415358064 (pbk.)
ISBN0203004108
ISBN9780203004104