The Dispossessed: America's Underclass from the Civil War to the Present

by Jacqueline A. Jones

Book Overview

This study of the roots of poverty in the USA explores the wrenching displacement of millions of rural Americans, both blacks and whites, beginning after the Civil War and following their great trek into the industrial centres and urban ghettos of the North.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0465001270
• ISBN13: 9780465001279
• Release Date: April 1992
• Publisher: Basic Books
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 0.10 lbs.