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What explains the continuing hardship of so many black Americans? In this book, a group of scholars analyzes the long, complex structural and environmental causes of discrimination and their effects on African-Americans. The chapter examines the impact of poverty, poor health, poor schools, poor housing, poor neighborhoods, 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 chapters examine policies designed to correct problems, while others look at the changing racial and ethnic ... More
Keywords: black Americans, discrimination, African-Americans, poverty, health, schools, housing, ethnic composition, minorities
Print publication date: 2004 | Print ISBN-13: 9780300095418 |
Published to Yale Scholarship Online: October 2013 | DOI:10.12987/yale/9780300095418.001.0001 |
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