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

Author/creator Wilson, David, 1956-
Format Electronic
Publication InfoAbingdon, Oxon : New York, NY : Routledge,
Descriptionxi, 175 pages ; 24 cm.
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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
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 -- Introduction -- 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 -- The current federal role? 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 black ghetto -- Introduction -- A new uneven development -- References.
General note"Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada by Routledge."
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2006009658
ISBN0415358051 (hardcover : alk. paper)
ISBN041535806X (softcover : alk. paper)

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