The Closing Door

Author : Gary Orfield
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226632735
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Closing Door written by Gary Orfield and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1993-11 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Closing Door is the first major critique of the effect of conservative policies on urban race and poverty in the 1980s. Atlanta, with its booming economy, strong elected black leadership, and many highly educated blacks, seemed to be the perfect site for those policies and market solutions to prove themselves. Unfortunately, not only did expected economic opportunity fail to materialize but many of the hard-won gains of the civil rights movement were lost. Orfield and Ashkinaze painstakingly analyze the evidence from Atlanta to show why black opportunity deteriorated over the 1980s and outline possible remedies for the damage inflicted by the Reagan and Bush administrations. "The Closing Door is a crucial breath of fresh air . . . an important and timely text which will help to alter the 'underclass' debate in favor of reconsidering race-specific policies. Orfield and Ashkinaze construct a convincing argument with which those who favor 'race-neutrality' will have to contend. In readable prose they make a compelling case that economic growth is not enough."—Preston H. Smith II, Transition

Author : Patrick Phillips
Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 : 0593321421
Total Pages : 73 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Song of the Closing Doors written by Patrick Phillips and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2022-08-23 with total page 73 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From New York City subway encounters to memories of pickup basketball games on Fourth Street, a love letter to the past, and to all the relationships and memories our homeplaces hold, from the National Book Award finalist. “I will consider a slice of pizza," opens Phillips's poem "Jubilate Civitas." "For rare among pleasures in Gotham, it is both / exquisite and blessedly cheap." Thus, as throughout this collection, he celebrates a simple pleasure that "in a time of deceit . . . is honest and upright, steadfast and good"; even the busted buttons we press when waiting to cross the street make for elegy in a collection that brings us this poet at his burnished best. Phillips finds his love of a complex, vibrant city extends to his dearest people—he writes for his friend Paul, dying of cancer; for his wife’s stormy eyes when they fight; for the baby boy he once woke at night to feed and change. All these and more pass through Phillips's elegant yet colloquial lines, in a book that shines with love and honesty on every page. As he writes, "If you're reading this / we were once friends."

Author : Jane Blackmore
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Closing Door written by Jane Blackmore and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Louise Kirschner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Closing Door written by Louise Kirschner and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Alexander Knox
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 27 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Closing Door written by Alexander Knox and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 27 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jane Steen
Publisher : Aspidistra Press
ISBN 13 : 0985715014
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The House of Closed Doors written by Jane Steen and published by Aspidistra Press. This book was released on 2012-10-08 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Heedless. Stubborn. Disgraced. Small town Illinois, 1870: "My stepfather was not particularly fond of me to begin with, and now that he'd found out about the baby, he was foaming at the mouth" Desperate to avoid marriage, Nell Lillington refuses to divulge the name of her child's father and accepts her stepfather's decision that the baby be born at a Poor Farm and discreetly adopted. Until an unused padded cell is opened and two small bodies fall out. Nell is the only resident of the Poor Farm who is convinced the unwed mother and her baby were murdered, and rethinks her decision to abandon her own child to fate. But even if she manages to escape the Poor Farm with her baby she may have no safe place to run to.

Author : Trenda Lineback
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780692406380
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Closing the Door But Not My Heart written by Trenda Lineback and published by . This book was released on 2015-04-20 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Closing the Door for the First Time... I shut the door, fell on my knees and cried out to God for strength. I can't remember how long I cried, and I wasn't sure where Travis would go. My parents told me that I really didn't love my son, that I was a horrible mother. Even my best friend said, "How could you do that to him?" I knew God's Word was true and that He would come through for me and my family. I wanted my son to know that God would be there for him. Travis needed to depend on God completely. But for now my tears fell - my heart was broken over my son, who still continued using his drugs. I would have to close the door on my son, but not my heart. Closing the Door, but not my Heart, is a compelling story of tough love and abounding grace that will stir both your heart and your faith to believe anything is possible with God. If you've ever had to hope against hope for your loved one, this book is the encouragement you need!

Author : Adelaide Foster
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Closing Door written by Adelaide Foster and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ossip Schubin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The closing door written by Ossip Schubin and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Dee Van Balen
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781452890722
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Closing Door written by Dee Van Balen and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2010-08-13 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book was written in order to share a powerful story about a little girl who was seperated from her family at a very young age and how it affected her personality and outlook on life.