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Quiet riots : race and poverty in the United States / edited by Fred R. Harris and Roger W. Wilkins.
LIBRA HV4045 .Q54 1988
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Van Pelt Library HV4045 .Q54 1988
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States. National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders.
- United States.
- Urban poor--United States.
- Urban poor.
- African Americans--Economic conditions.
- African Americans.
- United States--Race relations.
- Race relations.
- United States--Economic conditions.
- Economic conditions.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 223 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Pantheon Books, [1988]
- Contents:
- The 1967 riots and the Kerner Commission / Fred R. Harris
- The Kerner Report / John Herbers
- Poverty is still with us
- and worse / David Hamilton
- Blacks, Hispanics, American Indians, and poverty
- and what worked / Gary D. Sandefur
- The persistence of urban poverty / Terry K. Adams, Greg J. Duncan, and Willard L. Rodgers
- Separate societies / Gary Orfield
- The ghetto underclass and the changing structure of urban poverty / William Julius Wilson ... [et al.]
- Thomas Jefferson, the Kerner Commission, and the Retreat of Folly / Lynn A. Curtis
- Race and poverty in the United States
- and what should be done / 1988 Commission on the Cities.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- "The Kerner report twenty years later."
- Bibliography: pages [185]-209.
- ISBN:
- 0394574737 :
- 0679721002
- OCLC:
- 18350666
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