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Segregation, Poverty, and Mortality in Urban African Americans » Read Now
by Anthony P. Polednak. 186 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

This book examines mortality rates for African-Americans in selected U.S. urban areas in relation to both social class and the degree of black-white residential segregation. Mortality rates for African-American infants and young adults are shown to be especially high in certain highly-segregated...
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This book examines mortality rates for African-Americans in selected U.S. urban areas in relation to both social class and the degree of black-white residential segregation. Mortality rates for African-American infants and young adults are shown to be especially high in certain highly-segregated areas. The findings will foster the development of the "epidemiology of American apartheid", a new field of research that has relevance to social and health policy. The intended audience includes sociologists (especially medical sociologists) who are likely to be familiar with segregation but not with its potential relevance to the health of African-Americans. Epidemiologists have recently turned to the study of racism and health, but epidemiologic studies have not dealt specifically with black-white segregation and health. Psychologists interested in racism are important potential collaborators with sociologists and epidemiologists in studies of the epidemiology of racial difference in health. Readers working in social policy and health policy areas, including urban issues, should also find relevant material. This work fits within the framework of Swedish economist Gunnar Myrdal's thesis that the American creed of equality of opportunity remains unfulfilled.
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African American Mothers and Grandmothers in Poverty: An Adaptational Perspective, in Journal of Comparative Family Studies » Read Now
by Robin L. Jarrett. 10 pgs.

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...African American Mothers and Grandmothers in Poverty: An Adaptational Perspective. by Robin L. Jarrett...their situations and coped with the constraints imposed by poverty...
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Neighborhood Poverty, Social Capital and the Cognitive Development of African American Preschoolers, in American Journal of Community Psychology » Read Now
by Margaret O'Brien Caughy, Patricia J. O'Campo. 14 pgs.

Collections: Education, Psychology, Entire Library
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The Culture-of-Poverty Thesis and African Americans: The Work of Gunnar Myrdal and Other Institutionalists, in Journal of Economic Issues » Read Now
by Robert Cherry. 14 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...The culture-of-poverty thesis and African Americans: the work...of American Dilemma that the culture-of-poverty thesis was applied to African Americans...exponent of the...
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Poverty Knowledge: Social Science, Social Policy, and the Poor in Twentieth-Century U.S. History (Chap. 3 "From the Deep South to the Dark Ghetto: Poverty Knowledge, Racial Liberalism, and Cultural 'Pathology'") » Read Now
by Alice O'connor. 373 pgs.

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""Poverty Knowledge is the most important analysis of the evolution of poverty knowledge ever published. Alice O'Connor's book is must reading for those who seek a comprehensive understanding of past and current social science writings on American poverty. Moreover, it provides a new vision that...
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""Poverty Knowledge is the most important analysis of the evolution of poverty knowledge ever published. Alice O'Connor's book is must reading for those who seek a comprehensive understanding of past and current social science writings on American poverty. Moreover, it provides a new vision that inextricably links the study of poverty to the broader study of political economy. This book will be discussed and debated for many years."--William Julius Wilson, Harvard University
"In this strongly argued, deeply researched, and very well-written book, Alice O'Connor lays bare the narrowness of social 'science' concerning poverty in American life since the progressive era. Neither liberals nor conservatives escape her informed, tough-minded critique."--James T. Patterson, Brown University
"There is nothing like this superb history and assessment of systematic social science concerned with poverty. Written by a historian with uncommon vantages on policy ideas, the book powerfully situates what, and how, we know within the dynamics of ideology, power, and interest that have characterized twentieth-century American liberalism. Richly researched and arrestingly composed, it informs policy history as well as options for the future."--Ira Katznelson, Columbia Univeristy
""Poverty Knowledge is an insightful and incisive account of poverty research since the nineteenth century. Alice O'Connor's disgust with the use of research to stigmatize the poor comes through powerfully and clearly. Critical history at its best, the book should also be read by sociologists, anthropologists, political scientists, economists, and welfare and antipoverty researchers--as well as teachers in thesefields."--Herbert J. Gans, Columbia University
"Alice O'Connor knows more about the social science literature on poverty than any other historian in America. No one has put the whole story together as she has. Her conclusions emerge as
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Paths to Homelessness: Extreme Poverty and the Urban Housing Crisis (Chap. 10 "A Black Teenage Single Mother and Her Son: Michelle and Andre") » Read Now
by Doug A. Timmer, D. Stanley Eitzen, Kathryn D. Talley. 210 pgs.

Collections: Entire Library

...Americans. If we look at those at half the poverty rate or lower, 3.9 percent of whites were in this extreme category of poverty compared to 9.9 percent of...
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Poverty in America: A Handbook ("African American Poverty" begins on p. 81) » Read Now
by John Iceland. 206 pgs.

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"This volume is an excellent overview of the dimensions and sources of American poverty. John Iceland combines statistical data, theoretical arguments, and historical information in a book that is highly readable and will very likely become a standard reference for students of poverty."--William...
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"This volume is an excellent overview of the dimensions and sources of American poverty. John Iceland combines statistical data, theoretical arguments, and historical information in a book that is highly readable and will very likely become a standard reference for students of poverty."--William Julius Wilson, author of "When Work Disappears
"In just a few short pages, Iceland brings anyone--lay reader, student, professional researcher--up to speed on the major issues and debates about poverty in America. With succinct and engaging prose, "Poverty in America covers the gamut--from theoretical issues to measurement to history to public policy--better than any other book out there right now."--Dalton Conley, author of "Honky
"Must reading on a tough and important topic. With some answers that may surprise, Iceland sorts out competing theories of why people are poor in the richest country in the world. His book should motivate every reader--policy maker, researcher, citizen-- to think hard aboutwhat it means to be poor today and how our society can best reduce the hardship and poverty still with us."--Constance F. Citro, National Research Council of the National Academies, Washington, D.C.
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Reparations to Poverty: Domestic Policy in America Ten Years after the Great Society ("Mainstream versus Minorities" begins on p. 159) » Read Now
by Brigitta Loesche-Scheller. 476 pgs.

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Race, Family Structure and Rural Poverty: An Assessment of Population and Structural Change, in Journal of Comparative Family Studies » Read Now
by Hayward Derrick Horton, Beverlyn Lundy Allen. 10 pgs.

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...Race, Family Structure and Rural Poverty: An Assessment of Population and Structural...explaining the disproportionate level of poverty among Black families (Bianchi and...