Quiet riots
Subtitle: race and poverty in the United States
By: Fred Harris, Roger Wilkins, editors.
Contributors: Harris, Fred R., 1930-; Wilkins, Roger W.,  1932-
Publisher: Pantheon Books
Published: 1988
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 223
Subjects: United States.  -- Kerner Commission.; Urban poor  -- United States.; African Americans  -- Economic conditions.; United States -- Race relations; United States  -- Economic conditions.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.