A Way Out: America's Ghettos and the Legacy of Racism

by Owen M. Fiss

Book Overview

After decades of hand-wringing and well-intentioned efforts to improve inner cities, ghettos remain places of degrading poverty with few jobs, much crime, failing schools, and dilapidated housing. Stepping around fruitless arguments over whether or not ghettos are dysfunctional communities that exacerbate poverty, and beyond modest proposals to ameliorate their problems, one of America's leading experts on civil rights gives us a stunning but commonsensical...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691088810
• ISBN13: 9780691088815
• Release Date: February 2003
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.8" x 9.8"