What explains the continuing hardship of so many black Americans? A distinguished group of scholars analyses the long, complex structural and environmental causes of discrimination and their effects on African-Americans. The authors examine the impact of poverty, poor health, poor schools, poor housing, poor neighbourhoods, and few job opportunities, and demonstrate how multiple causes reinforce each other and condemn African-Americans to positions of inferiority and poverty. Some of the contributors examine policies designed to correct problems, while others look at the changing racial and ethnic composition in America and its implications for African-Americans, as other minorities surpass them in numbers and claim political, economic, and social attention.
- ISBN10 0300095414
- ISBN13 9780300095418
- Publish Date 10 November 2004
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 6 October 2009
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Yale University Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 896
- Language English