Improving Poor People : : The Welfare State, the "Underclass," and Urban Schools as History / / Michael B. Katz.
"There are places where history feels irrelevant, and America's inner cities are among them," acknowledges Michael Katz, in expressing the tensions between activism and scholarship. But this major historian of urban poverty realizes that the pain in these cities has its origins in the...
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