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Quiet riots : race and poverty in the United States / edited by Fred R. Harris and Roger W. Wilkins. - 1st ed. - New York : Pantheon Books, c1988. - xiii, 223 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.

"The Kerner report twenty years later."

Includes bibliographies and index.

The 1967 riots and the Kerner Commission / Fred R. Harris -- The Kerner Report / John Herbers -- Poverty is still with us--and worse / David Hamilton -- Blacks, Hispanics, American Indians, and poverty--and what worked / Gary D. Sandefur -- The persistence of urban poverty / Terry K. Adams, Greg J. Duncan, and Willard L. Rodgers -- Separate societies / Gary Orfield -- The ghetto underclass and the changing structure of urban poverty / William Julius Wilson ... [et al.] -- Thomas Jefferson, the Kerner Commission, and the Retreat of Folly / Lynn A. Curtis -- Race and poverty in the United States--and what should be done / 1988 Commission on the Cities.

0679721002 (pbk.) 0394574737 (hard)

88042770


United States. National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders.


Urban poor--United States.
African Americans--Economic conditions.


United States--Race relations.
United States--Economic conditions--1981-2001.

HV4045 / .Q54 1988

305.5 / HAR
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