Dark ghettos : injustice, dissent, and reform / Tommie Shelby.

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"Why do ghettos persist?" Tommie Shelby asks in Dark Ghettos. Today, ghettos are widely seen as social problems that public policy should aim to solve. Shelby calls this the "medical model" because it portrays ghettos as sick patients in need of treatment. In his view, this model ignores the politic...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Shelby, Tommie, 1967- (Author)
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2016.
Subjects:
Inner cities > United States.
Social justice > United States.
Racism in public welfare > United States.
African Americans > Social conditions.
Inner cities > Government policy > United States.
Inner cities.
Inner cities > Government policy.
Racism in public welfare.
Social justice.
United States.
Physical Description:340 pages ; 25 cm
Format: Book

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