American Apartheid: Segregation and the Making of the Underclass, by Douglas S. Massey, Nancy A. Denton

American Apartheid: Segregation and the Making of the Underclass,

Douglas S. Massey, Nancy A. Denton

292 pages first pub 1993 (editions)

nonfiction history race sociology challenging informative reflective slow-paced

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The authors demonstrate that this systematic segregation of African Americans leads inexorably to the creation of underclass communities during periods of economic downturn. Under conditions of extreme segregation, any increase in the overall rat...

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