Poverty and place : ghettos, barrios, and the American city

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Poverty and place : ghettos, barrios, and the American city

Title remainder

ghettos, barrios, and the American city

Statement of responsibility

Paul A. Jargowsky

Creator

• Jargowsky, Paul A

Subject

• Community development, Urban -- United States
• Inner cities -- United States
• Pluralism (Social sciences) -- United States
• United States -- Race relations
• Urban poor -- United States

Language

eng

Summary

Today more than eight million Americans live in neighborhoods of extreme economic deprivation, social isolation, and often terrifying violence. The number of ghettos, barrios, and slums in the United States has more than doubled since 1970, and the proportion of the poor who live in them has risen dramatically. Policymakers and the public alike are increasingly concerned about the emergence of an "underclass" population in these blighted neighborhoods. Poverty and Place addresses these concerns with a comprehensive investigation into the extent of extreme neighborhood poverty across America and an account of the forces fueling its growth. Poverty and Place documents the geographic spread of the nation's ghettos and shows how economic shifts have had a particularly devastating impact on certain regions, particularly in the "rust-belt" states of the Midwest

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DCC

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illustrations

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index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography