The "Underclass" Debate : : Views from History /

The "Underclass" Debate : : Views from History / / ed. by Michael B. Katz.

Do ominous reports of an emerging "underclass" reveal an unprecedented crisis in American society? Or are social commentators simply rediscovering the tragedy of recurring urban poverty, as they seem to do every few decades? Although social scientists and members of the public make frequen...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999
MitwirkendeR:
Bartelt, David W.,
Brenzel, Barbara,
Jackson, Thomas F.,
Jones, Jacqueline,
Kantor, Harvey,
Katz, Michael B.,
Kelley, Robin D. G.,
Miller, Andrew T.,
Model, Suzanne,
Monkkonen, Eric H.,
Neckerman, Kathryn M.,
Stern, Mark J.,
Sugrue, Thomas J.,
Trotter, Joe William,
HerausgeberIn:
Katz, Michael B.,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2018]
©1993
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • INTRODUCTION: The Urban "Underclass" as a Metaphor of Social Transformation
  • PART ONE: The Roots of Ghetto Poverty
  • CHAPTER 1: Southern Diaspora: Origins of the Northern "Underclass"
  • CHAPTER 2: Blacks in the Urban North: The "Underclass Question" in Historical Perspective
  • PART TWO: The Transformation of America's Cities
  • CHAPTER 3: The Structures of Urban Poverty: The Reorganization of Space and Work in Three Periods of American History
  • CHAPTER 4: Housing the "Underclass"
  • PART THREE: Families, Networks, and Opportunities
  • CHAPTER 5: The Ethnic Niche and the Structure of Opportunity: Immigrants and Minorities in New York City
  • CHAPTER 6: The Emergence of "Underclass" Family Patterns, 1900-1940
  • CHAPTER 7: Poverty and Family Composition since 1940
  • CHAPTER 8: Social Science, Social Policy, and the Heritage of African-American Families
  • PART FOUR: Politics, Institutions, and the State
  • CHAPTER 9: The Black Poor and the Politics of Opposition in a New South City, 1929-1970
  • CHAPTER 10: Nineteenth-Century Institutions: Dealing with the Urban "Underclass"
  • CHAPTER 11: Urban Education and the "Truly Disadvantaged": The Historical Roots of the Contemporary Crisis, 1945-1990
  • CHAPTER 12: The State, the Movement, and the Urban Poor: The War on Poverty and Political Mobilization in the 19605
  • CONCLUSION: Reframing the "Underclass" Debate
  • Contributors
  • Name Index
  • Subject Index

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