- Poverty, United states, economic conditions, 1981-2001, Poor, united states, Urban poor
In his long-awaited new book, our foremost authority on race and poverty challenges decades of liberal and conservative pieties to look squarely at the devastating effects that joblessness has had on our urban ghettos.
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Earnest, grave, classical in form and contemporary.
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- contemporarynostalgic
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About the book
- Author
- Wilson, William J.
- First published
- 1997
- Pages
- 322
- Publisher
- Scholarly Audio, Vintage, Vintage Books
- Editions
- 3
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780307794697
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“An elderly woman who has lived in one inner-city neighborhood on the South Side of Chicago for more than forty years reflected: I've been here since March 21, 1953.”
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