The "Underclass" debate : views from history /
Katz, Michael B.,1939-
Social Science Research Council (U.S.).Committee for Research on the Urban Underclass.
Princeton, N.J. ; Oxford : Princeton University Press,
c1993.
"Sponsored by the Committee for Research on the Urban Underclass of the Social Science Research Council."
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
The urban "Underclass" as a metaphor of social transformation / Michael B. Katz -- Southern diaspora : origins of the northern "Underclass" / Jacqueline Jones -- Blacks in the urban north : the "Underclass question" in historical perspective / Joe William Trotter, Jr. -- The structures of urban poverty : the reorganization of space and work in three periods of American history / Thomas J. Sugrue -- Housing the "Underclass" / David W. Bartelt -- The ethnic niche and the structure of opportunity : immigrants and minorities in New York City / Suzanne Model -- The emergence of "Underclass" family patterns, 1900-1940 / Kathryn M. Neckerman -- Poverty and family composition since 1940 / Mark J. Stern -- Social science, social policy, and the heritage of African-American families / Andrew T. Miller -- The Black poor and the politics of opposition in a new south city, 1929-1970 / Robin D. G. Kelley -- Nineteenth-century institutions : dealing with the urban "Underclass" / Eric H. Monkkonen -- Urban education and the "truly disadvantaged" : the historical roots of the contemporary crisis, 1945-1990 / Harvey Kantor & Barbara Brenzel -- The state, the movement, and the urban poor : the war on poverty and political mobilization in the 1960s / Thomas F. Jackson -- Reframing the "Underclass" debate / Michael B. Katz.
Urban poor
African Americans
African Americans
Urban policy