ISBN:
041535806X
,
0415358051
,
9780415358064
,
9780415358057
Language:
English
Pages:
XI, 175 S.
,
24cm
Edition:
1st publ.
Series Statement:
Questioning cities series
DDC:
307.3/3660973
Keywords:
Urban poor
;
African Americans Economic conditions
;
African Americans Social conditions
;
Inner cities
;
Urban policy
;
Urban poor United States
;
African Americans Economic conditions
;
African Americans Social conditions
;
Inner cities United States
;
Urban policy United States
;
United States Race relations
;
United States Race relations
;
USA
;
Stadt
;
Armut
;
Schwarze
Description / Table of Contents:
Glocal black ghetto emergenceIntroduction -- The frame -- An uneasy global trope -- Perspective and definitions -- Rise of glocal ghetto -- The beginning -- Things get worse, 1965-1980 -- The Reagan 1980s -- The post 1990 global obsession -- Formation of the global ghetto -- The global trope -- Introduction -- The new spaceless entrepreneur -- Problem inner cities -- New heroic mayors as salvationists -- The result -- Current ghetto dynamics -- Glocal ghetto changes -- Introduction -- Deepened deprivation -- The new stigma and marginalization -- The new ambiguous ghetto-prison connection -- The current federal role? Bush policy effects -- Introduction -- Bush urban policy -- Faith-based interventions -- Changed workfare -- No child left behind -- The future federal role? Block grants -- The active black ghetto -- Ghetto responses -- Introduction -- Resistance to the glocal ghetto -- The outcome -- The crisis of the black ghetto -- Introduction -- A new uneven development -- References.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [152]-169) and index
URL:
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0659/2006009658-d.html
URL:
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0659/2006009658-d.html
