A Way Out : : America's Ghettos and the Legacy of Racism / / Owen Fiss; ed. by Joel Rogers, Jefferson Decker, Joshua Cohen.
After decades of hand-wringing and well-intentioned efforts to improve inner cities, ghettos remain places of degrading poverty with few jobs, much crime, failing schools, and dilapidated housing. Stepping around fruitless arguments over whether or not ghettos are dysfunctional communities that exac...
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Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2009] ©2003 |
Year of Publication: | 2009 |
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Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- PREFACE
- PART I
- What Should Be Done for Those Who Have Been Left Behind?
- PART II
- Down by Law
- Communities, Capital, and Conflicts
- Better Neighborhoods?
- Beyond Moralizing
- Creating Options
- Exit and Redevelopment
- Relocation Works
- Unlikely Times
- Against Social Engineering
- If Baldwin Could Speak
- PART III
- A Task Unfinished
- Notes on the Contributors
- Index