Quiet riots
Subtitle: race and poverty in the United States
By: edited by Fred R. Harris and Roger W. Wilkins.
Contributors: Harris, Fred R., 1930-; Wilkins, Roger W., 1932-
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Pantheon Books
Published: 1988
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 223
Subjects: United States. National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders.; Urban poor -- United States.; African Americans -- Economic conditions.; United States -- Race relations.; United States -- Economic conditions -- 1981-
Notes: Includes bibliographies and index.
"The Kerner report twenty years later."
Table of contents: title: The 1967 riots and the Kerner Commission / Fred R. Harris; title: The Kerner Report / John Herbers; title: Poverty is still with us; title: and worse / David Hamilton; title: Blacks, Hispanics, American Indians, and poverty; title: and what worked / Gary D. Sandefur; title: The persistence of urban poverty / Terry K. Adams, Greg J. Duncan, and Willard L. Rodgers; title: Separate societies / Gary Orfield; title: The ghetto underclass and the changing structure of urban poverty / William Julius Wilson ... [et al.]; title: Thomas Jefferson, the Kerner Commission, and the Retreat of Folly / Lynn A. Curtis; title: Race and poverty in the United States; title: and what should be done / 1988 Commission on the Cities.