The "Underclass" Debate
Subtitle: Views from History
Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr
Published: February 1993
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 520
ISBN-13: 9780691048109
Subjects: Sociology; Urban poor; Poverty; Black American Sociology; U.S. Urban Politics And Problems; United States; History: American; Social conditions; General; Human rights; Social groups & communities; Social issues; USA; Economic conditions; African Americans; History
First sentence: IN 1942, WHEN SHE testified before a congressional committee on national defense migration, Johnnie Belle Taylor was living with her mother and five children in a Farm Security Administration labor camp in the vicinity of Belle Glade, Florida.