Full name: The Truly Disadvantaged: The Inner City, the Underclass, and Public Policy

Author: William Julius Wilson Year: 1987 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Non Fiction, Politics, Economics Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780226901312 0226901319

"The Truly Disadvantaged should spur critical thinking in many quarters about the causes and possible remedies for inner city poverty. As policy makers grapple with the problems of an enlarged underclass they--as well as community leaders and all concerned Americans of all races--would be advised to examine Mr. Wilson's incisive analysis."--Robert Greenstein, New York Times Book Review "'Must reading' for civil-rights leaders, leaders of advocacy organizations for the poor, and for elected officials in our major urban centers."--Bernard C. Watson, Journal of Negro Education "Required reading for anyone, presidential candidate or private citizen, who really wants to address the growing plight of the black urban underclass."--David J. Garrow, Washington Post Book World Selected by the editors of the New York Times Book Review as one of the sixteen best books of 1987. Winner of the 1988 C. Wright Mills Award of the Society for the Study of Social Problems. Similar books: No Shame in My Game by Katherine S. Newman When Work Disappears by William Julius Wilson Ain't No Makin' It by Jay MacLeod Code of the Street by Elijah Anderson American Apartheid by Douglas Massey The Other America by Michael Harrington The End of Racism by Dinesh D'Souza Regulating the Poor by Frances Fox Piven Flat Broke with Children by Sharon Hays The Working Poor by David K. Shipler There Are No Children Here by Alex Kotlowitz The Rich Get Richer and the Poor Get Prison by Jeffrey Reiman Tally's Corner by Elliot Liebow Unequal Childhoods by Annette Lareau Poor People by William T. Vollmann The Jobless Future by Stanley Aronowitz The Locust Effect by Gary A. Haugen Tightrope by Nicholas D. Kristof No, They Can't by John Stossel Oligarchy by Jeffrey A. Winters