Title: The Black underclass :
Authors: Glasgow, Douglas G.
Date: 1980
Publisher: Jossey-Bass Publishers,
Physical description: xv, 206 pages ; 24 cm.
Language: English
LC classification: E
Abstract: Analysis of extensive research after the 1965 Watts riots of the young people in neighborhood.
Contents: Preface -- The author -- Black perspectives on the underclass -- Research in a Black community -- Defining a Black ghetto -- Failure in the schools -- Chronic unemployment -- Adapting to survival in the streets -- From futility to rebellion -- Participation in community change -- Reassessing the issues -- Reversing underclass growth.
Notes: Includes index.
Subject headings (LCSH): African American youth--Employment.; African Americans--Economic conditions.; Inner cities--California--Los Angeles.; Watts (Los Angeles, Calif.)--Social conditions.