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The truly disadvantaged : the inner city, the underclass, and public policy / William Julius Wilson.
LIBRA HV4045 .W55 1990
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wilson, William J., 1935-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Urban poor--United States.
- Urban poor.
- United States.
- Inner cities--United States.
- Inner cities.
- Urban policy--United States.
- Urban policy.
- African Americans--Economic conditions.
- African Americans.
- African Americans--Social conditions.
- United States--Race relations.
- Race relations.
- Ciudades perdidas--EE. UU.
- Política urbana--EE. UU.
- Afro americanos--Condiciones económicas.
- Afro americanos--Condiciones sociales.
- EE. UU--Relaciones raciales.
- Local Subjects:
- Ciudades perdidas--EE. UU.
- Política urbana--EE. UU.
- Afro americanos--Condiciones económicas.
- Afro americanos--Condiciones sociales.
- EE. UU--Relaciones raciales.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 254 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- Paperback edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1990.
- Summary:
- William Julius Wilson, a sociology professor at Harvard University, has written timely book analyzing inner-city, African-American poverty. He also offers his own solutions for eliminating poverty.
- Contents:
- pt. 1. 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)
- pt. 2. 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).
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-247) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0226901319
- 9780226901312
- 0226901300
- 9780226901305
- OCLC:
- 23346528
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