ISBN:
0674018206
,
0674018214
Language:
English
Pages:
X, 292 S.
DDC:
305.8/00973
Keywords:
Geschichte 1900-2000
;
Getto's
;
Negers
;
Rassendiscriminatie
;
Segregatie
;
Rassismus
;
Schwarze
;
Geschichte
;
Schwarze
;
Schwarze. USA
;
African Americans Social conditions
;
Inner cities History 20th century
;
Race discrimination History 20th century
;
Segregation History 20th century
;
Armut
;
Schwarze
;
Rassentrennung
;
USA
;
USA
;
United States Race relations
;
United States Social policy
;
USA
;
USA
;
Rassentrennung
;
Armut
;
Schwarze
Abstract:
This powerful and disturbing book clearly links persistent poverty among blacks in the United States to the unparalleled degree of deliberate segregation they experience in American cities. American Apartheid shows how the black ghetto was created by whites during the first half of the twentieth century in order to isolate growing urban black populations. It goes on to show that, despite the Fair Housing Act of 1968, segregation is perpetuated today through an interlocking set of individual actions, institutional practices, and governmental policies. In some urban areas the degree of black segregation is so intense and occurs in so many dimensions simultaneously that it amounts to hyper-segregation.
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