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

American Apartheid: Segregation and the Making of the Underclass

Douglas S. Massey, Nancy Denton

312 pages first pub 1993 (editions)

nonfiction history race sociology challenging informative reflective slow-paced

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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 ...

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