Dark Ghetto

Author : Tommie Shelby
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674970500
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dark Ghettos written by Tommie Shelby and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2016-11 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why do American ghettos persist? Scholars and commentators often identify some factor—such as single motherhood, joblessness, or violent street crime—as the key to solving the problem and recommend policies accordingly. But, Tommie Shelby argues, these attempts to “fix” ghettos or “help” their poor inhabitants ignore fundamental questions of justice and fail to see the urban poor as moral agents responding to injustice. “Provocative...[Shelby] doesn’t lay out a jobs program or a housing initiative. Indeed, as he freely admits, he offers ‘no new political strategies or policy proposals.’ What he aims to do instead is both more abstract and more radical: to challenge the assumption, common to liberals and conservatives alike, that ghettos are ‘problems’ best addressed with narrowly targeted government programs or civic interventions. For Shelby, ghettos are something more troubling and less tractable: symptoms of the ‘systemic injustice’ of the United States. They represent not aberrant dysfunction but the natural workings of a deeply unfair scheme. The only real solution, in this way of thinking, is the ‘fundamental reform of the basic structure of our society.’” —James Ryerson, New York Times Book Review

Author : Kenneth B. Clark
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780819562265
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dark Ghetto written by Kenneth B. Clark and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 1989-11 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes how the ghetto separates Blacks not only from white people, but also from opportunities and resources.

Author : Mitchell Duneier
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1429942754
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ghetto written by Mitchell Duneier and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2016-04-19 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times Notable Book of 2016 Winner of the Zócalo Public Square Book Prize On March 29, 1516, the city council of Venice issued a decree forcing Jews to live in il geto—a closed quarter named for the copper foundry that once occupied the area. The term stuck. In this sweeping and original account, Mitchell Duneier traces the idea of the ghetto from its beginnings in the sixteenth century and its revival by the Nazis to the present. As Duneier shows, we cannot comprehend the entanglements of race, poverty, and place in America today without recalling the ghettos of Europe, as well as earlier efforts to understand the problems of the American city. Ghetto is the story of the scholars and activists who tried to achieve that understanding. As Duneier shows, their efforts to wrestle with race and poverty cannot be divorced from their individual biographies, which often included direct encounters with prejudice and discrimination in the academy and elsewhere. Using new and forgotten sources, Duneier introduces us to Horace Cayton and St. Clair Drake, graduate students whose conception of the South Side of Chicago established a new paradigm for thinking about Northern racism and poverty in the 1940s. We learn how the psychologist Kenneth Clark subsequently linked Harlem’s slum conditions with the persistence of black powerlessness, and we follow the controversy over Daniel Patrick Moynihan’s report on the black family. We see how the sociologist William Julius Wilson redefined the debate about urban America as middle-class African Americans increasingly escaped the ghetto and the country retreated from racially specific remedies. And we trace the education reformer Geoffrey Canada’s efforts to transform the lives of inner-city children with ambitious interventions, even as other reformers sought to help families escape their neighborhoods altogether. Duneier offers a clear-eyed assessment of the thinkers and doers who have shaped American ideas about urban poverty—and the ghetto. The result is a valuable new estimation of an age-old concept.

Author : Lance Freeman
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231545576
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Haven and a Hell written by Lance Freeman and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2019-04-16 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The black ghetto is thought of as a place of urban decay and social disarray. Like the historical ghetto of Venice, it is perceived as a space of confinement, one imposed on black America by whites. It is the home of a marginalized underclass and a sign of the depth of American segregation. Yet while black urban neighborhoods have suffered from institutional racism and economic neglect, they have also been places of refuge and community. In A Haven and a Hell, Lance Freeman examines how the ghetto shaped black America and how black America shaped the ghetto. Freeman traces the evolving role of predominantly black neighborhoods in northern cities from the late nineteenth century through the present day. At times, the ghetto promised the freedom to build black social institutions and political power. At others, it suppressed and further stigmatized African Americans. Freeman reveals the forces that caused the ghetto’s role as haven or hell to wax and wane, spanning the Great Migration, mid-century opportunities, the eruptions of the sixties, the challenges of the seventies and eighties, and present-day issues of mass incarceration, the subprime crisis, and gentrification. Offering timely planning and policy recommendations based in this history, A Haven and a Hell provides a powerful new understanding of urban black communities at a time when the future of many inner-city neighborhoods appears uncertain.

Author : Anthony Vaughn
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781687184818
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.1X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Balancing Dark with Light written by Anthony Vaughn and published by . This book was released on 2019-08-18 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A spiritual/self help book that takes you on the journey of a lifetime for Anthony, a shy, but brilliant young man. He has his light darkened by the karma he had accumulated and seems to be lost, unfocused, with no direction in life. The burning desire to find out the meaning of his life sends him zigging and zagging on quests that ends in love that he never could have imagined. Come on this magnificent ride from state to state where he encounters success and defeat along with all the vices he could manage. Also take a trip with him to Korea on a spiritual pilgrimage where he learns in depth, the meaning of accepting and letting go. For the reader, there's never a dull moment, even during the meditation practices. After seeing the good, the bad, the weird, and the ugly you'll finish the book feeling like this rollercoaster ride was one that you'd want to take again because the twists and turns had a weird healing effect. Enjoy it and leave a comment. Thank you!😊

Author : G. Neri
Publisher : Candlewick Press
ISBN 13 : 0763654493
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ghetto Cowboy written by G. Neri and published by Candlewick Press. This book was released on 2011-08-09 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A street-smart tale about a displaced teen who learns to defend what's right-the Cowboy Way. When Cole’s mom dumps him in the mean streets of Philadelphia to live with the dad he’s never met, the last thing Cole expects to see is a horse, let alone a stable full of them. He may not know much about cowboys, but what he knows for sure is that cowboys aren’t black, and they don’t live in the inner city. But in his dad’s ’hood, horses are a way of life, and soon Cole’s days of skipping school and getting in trouble in Detroit have been replaced by shoveling muck and trying not to get stomped on. At first, all Cole can think about is how to ditch these ghetto cowboys and get home. But when the City threatens to shut down the stables-- and take away the horse Cole has come to think of as his own-- he knows that it’s time to step up and fight back. Inspired by the little-known urban riders of Philly and Brooklyn, this compelling tale of latter -day cowboy justice champions a world where your friends always have your back, especially when the chips are down.

Author : Julian Voloj
Publisher : NBM Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1561639508
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ghetto Brother written by Julian Voloj and published by NBM Publishing. This book was released on 2015-05-01 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An engrossing and counter view of one of the most dangerous elements of American urban history, this graphic novel tells the true story of Benjy Melendez, a Bronx legend who founded, at the end of the 1960s, the formidable Ghetto Brothers gang. From the seemingly bombed-out ravages of his neighborhood, wracked by drugs, poverty, and violence, he managed to extract an incredibly positive energy from this riot ridden era: his multiracial gang promoted peace rather than violence. Among its many accomplishments, the gang held weekly concerts on the streets or in abandoned buildings, which fostered the emergence of hip-hop.

Author : Kenneth Bancroft Clark
Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dark Ghetto written by Kenneth Bancroft Clark and published by HarperCollins Publishers. This book was released on 1967 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Daniel B. Schwartz
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674737539
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ghetto written by Daniel B. Schwartz and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2019-09-24 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few words are as ideologically charged as “ghetto,” a term that has described legally segregated Jewish quarters, dense immigrant enclaves, Nazi holding pens, and black neighborhoods in the United States. Daniel B. Schwartz reveals how the history of ghettos is tied up with struggle and argument over the slippery meaning of a word.

Author : Kenneth Bancroft Clark
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dark Ghetto written by Kenneth Bancroft Clark and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: