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Wilson, David, 1956-

Cities and race America's new black ghetto / [electronic resource] : David Wilson. - New York, N.Y. : Routledge, 2006. - xi, 175 p. - Questioning cities series . - Questioning cities series. .

"Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada by Routledge."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Glocal black ghetto emergence -- Introduction -- The frame -- An uneasy global trope -- Perspective and definitions -- Rise of glocal ghetto -- The beginning -- Things get worse, 1965-1980 -- The Reagan 1980s -- The post 1990 global obsession -- Formation of the global ghetto -- The global trope -- Introduction -- The new spaceless entrepreneur -- Problem inner cities -- New heroic mayors as salvationists -- The result -- Current ghetto dynamics -- Glocal ghetto changes -- Introduction -- Deepened deprivation -- The new stigma and marginalization -- The new ambiguous ghetto-prison connection -- The current federal role? Bush policy effects -- Introduction -- Bush urban policy -- Faith-based interventions -- Changed workfare -- No child left behind -- The future federal role? Block grants -- The active black ghetto -- Ghetto responses -- Introduction -- Resistance to the glocal ghetto -- The outcome -- The crisis of the black ghetto -- Introduction -- A new uneven development -- References.




Mode of access: World Wide Web.

9780203004104 (e-book : PDF)


Urban poor--United States.
African Americans--Economic conditions.
African Americans--Social conditions.
Inner cities--United States.
Urban policy--United States.


United States--Race relations.


Electronic books.


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