Quiet riots : race and poverty in the United States /
by Harris, Fred R; Wilkins, Roger W.
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BookPublisher: New York : Pantheon Books, c1988Edition: 1st ed.Description: xiii, 223 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.ISBN: 0679721002 (pbk.); 0394574737 (hard).Subject(s): United States. National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders | Urban poor -- United States | African Americans -- Economic conditions | United States -- Race relations | United States -- Economic conditions -- 1981-2001
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.
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Dhaka University Library American Studies Corner | Reference | 305.5 HAR (Browse shelf) | Not For Loan | 365540 |
"The Kerner report twenty years later."
Includes bibliographies and index.
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.
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