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 with James Anderson Foster (Narrator)

nonfiction history race sociology challenging informative reflective slow-paced

10 hours, 43 minutes | first published 1993

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American Apartheid shows how the black ghetto was created by whites during the first half of the twentieth century in order to isolate growing urban black populations. It goes on to show that, despite the Fair Housing Act of 1968, segregation is p...
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