Cities and race : America's new black ghetto / David Wilson.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wilson, David, 1956-
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, 2007.
Series:Questioning cities series.
Subjects:
Urban poor > United States.
African Americans > Economic conditions.
African Americans > Social conditions.
Inner cities > United States.
Urban policy > United States.
United States > Race relations.
Physical Description:xi, 175 pages ; 24 cm.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Glocal black ghetto emergence
  • Introduction
  • The frame
  • An uneasy global trope
  • Perspective and definitions
  • Rise of glocal ghetto
  • The beginning
  • Things get worse, 1965-1980
  • The Reagan 1980s
  • The post 1990 global obsession
  • Formation of the global ghetto
  • The global trope
  • The new spaceless entrepreneur
  • Problem inner cities
  • New heroic mayors as salvationists
  • The result
  • Current ghetto dynamics
  • Glocal ghetto changes
  • Introduction
  • Deepened deprivation
  • The new stigma and marginalization
  • The new ambiguous ghetto-prison connection
  • Recent sustaining - Bush policy effects
  • Introduction
  • Bush urban policy
  • Faith-based interventions
  • Changed workfare
  • No child left behind
  • The future federal role : block grants
  • The active black ghetto
  • Ghetto responses
  • Introduction
  • Resistance to the glocal ghetto
  • The outcome
  • The crisis of the rust belt black ghetto
  • A new uneven development?
  • References.