American Apartheid Segregation and the Making of the Underclass

Name: American Apartheid Segregation and the Making of the Underclass
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ISBN: 9780674018211

ISBN-10: 0674018214

ISBN-13: 9780674018211

Edition: 1993

Authors: Douglas S. Massey, Nancy A. Denton

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This powerful and disturbing book clearly links persistent poverty among blacks in the United States to the unparalleled degree of deliberate segregation they experience in American cities. American Apartheid shows how the black ghetto was created by whites during the first half of the twentieth century in order to isolate growing urban black populations. It goes on to show that, despite the Fair Housing Act of 1968, segregation is perpetuated today through an interlocking set of individual actions, institutional practices, and governmental policies. In some urban areas the degree of black segregation is so intense and occurs in so many dimensions simultaneously that it amounts to…

Book details

List price: $35.00
Copyright year: 1993
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 7/15/1998
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 312
Size: 6.13" wide x 9.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English



Preface



The Missing Link



The Construction of the Ghetto



The Persistence of the Ghetto



The Continuing Causes of Segregation



The Creation of Underclass Communities



The Perpetuation of the Underclass



The Failure of Public Policy



The Future of the Ghetto


Notes


Index