Black Underclass: Poverty, Unemployment and Entrapment of Ghetto Youth (The Jossey-Bass social and behavioral science series)
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| Rating | : | 4.65 (849 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0875893929 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 220 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
| Language | : | English |
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Programs needed within Black Ghettos in America The "Black Underclass depicts the programs utilized after the" Watts Riots" which are desperately needed within the Black inner-city communities of America today!. Four Stars Nice book
Concentrating on a group of so-called "problem" youths between the ages of 18 and 34, whom he came to know well, he analyzes the reasons why a black underclass continues to exist in this country, offers new understanding of the aspirations, and motivations of ghetto youth and adds an important dimension to the debate of race vs. With these striking words, Douglas G. class.. Glasgow, professor of social welfare at Howard University, begins this memorable book on a segment of the population that neither antipoverty nor headstart programs have been able to touch. It is based on intensive research he himself conducted in Watts between 1965 and 1968. with a followup in 1975
What held them together was their common condition: They were jobless and lacked salable skills and the opportunities to get them; they had been rejected and labeled as social problems by the police, the schools, the employment and welfare agencies; they were victims of the new camouflaged racism. "This book was born in flames, in an inferno that raged for four August days in 1965. For in addition to discrimination based on race, they were now rejected by 'social profile.'" . The place was Watts, Los Angeles; the young men who ignited