A haven and a hell : the ghetto in black America /
The black ghetto is thought of as a place of urban decay and social disarray. Like the historical ghetto of Venice, it is perceived as a space of confinement, one imposed on black America by whites. It is the home of a marginalized underclass and a sign of the depth of American segregation. Yet whil...
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New York :
Columbia University Press,
[2019]
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Table of Contents:
- The embryonic ghetto
- The age of the black enclave
- The federally sanctioned ghetto
- World War II and the aftermath : the ghetto diverges
- The ghetto erupts : the 1960s
- The last decades of the twentieth century
- The ghetto in the twenty-first century
- Conclusion: how to have a haven but no hell in the twenty-first century
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.