Race, Poverty, and American Cities by John Charles Boger & Judith Welch Wegner

Author:John Charles Boger & Judith Welch Wegner [Boger, John Charles & Wegner, Judith Welch]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Political Science, Public Policy, General
ISBN: 9780807899915
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Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Published: 1996-09-09T13:08:21+00:00

Notes

1. Report of The National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders (New York: Bantam Books 1968), 407 (hereafter cited as Kerner Report).

2. See John Charles Boger, “Race and the American City: The Kerner Commission Report in Retrospect” (in this volume).

3. Kerner Report, 475.

4. Ibid., 472–73.

5. Ibid., 482.

6. Ibid., 406.

7. John D. Kasarda, “Urban Industrial Transition and the Underclass,” Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 501 (1989): 26–47; John D. Kasarda, “Urban Employment Change and Minority Skills Mismatch,” in Creating fobs, Creating Workers: Economic Development and Employment in Metropolitan Chicago, ed. Lawrence B. Joseph (Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 1990), 65,82.

8. William Julius Wilson, The Truly Disadvantaged: The Inner City, the Underclass, and Public Policy (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987), 135.

9. NCI Research, Identifying Employment Opportunities for Inner City Residents (1991), 5.

10. Ibid.

11. David T. Ellwood, “The Spatial Mismatch Hypothesis: Are There Teen-age Jobs Missing in the Ghetto?,” in The Black Youth Unemployment Crisis, ed. Richard B. Freeman and Harry J. Holzer (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1986), 148.

12. John F. Kain, “Housing Segregation, Negro Employment, and Metropolitan Decentralization,” Quarterly Journal of Economics 82 (1968): 175–97; Christopher Jencks and Susan E. Mayer, “Residential Segregation, Job Proximity, and Black Job Opportunities: The Empirical Status of the Spatial Mismatch Hypothesis” (Center for Urban Affairs and Policy Research, Northwestern University, working paper, 1989), 2.

13. Andrew Hahn and Robert Lerman, What Works in Youth Employment Policy? (Washington, D.C: National Planning Association, Committee on New American Realities, 1985), 22–23.

14. Kerner Report, 407.

15. See James S. Coleman, Ernest Q. Campbell, Carol J. Hobson, James McPart-land, Alexander Mood, Frederic D. Weinfeld, and Robert L. York, Equality of Educational Opportunity (Washington, D.C: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1966), 330–31; Caroline Hodges Persell, Education and Inequality (New York: Free Press, 1977), 150–52.

16. See Willis D. Hawley, ed., Effective School Desegregation: Equity, Quality, and Feasibility (Beverly Hills, Calif.: Sage, 1981).

17. See Hills v. Gautreaux, 425 U.S. 284 (1976).

18. Kathleen A. Peroff et al., U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Gautreaux Housing Demonstration: An Evaluation of Its Impact on Participating Households (Washington, D.C: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1979), 1.

19. The Section 8 program is a federal program that subsidizes rents for low-income people in private sector apartments, either by giving them a Section 8 certificate that allows them to rent apartments on the open market or by moving them into a new or rehabilitated building where the owner has taken a federal loan that requires some units to be set aside for low-income tenants.

20. Jencks and Mayer, “Residential Segregation,” 26–41.

21. Ibid., 26.

22. On a scheduled day a Leadership Council housing counselor visits the apartment, looking primarily for serious property damage.

23. See James E. Rosenbaum and Susan J. Popkin, Economic and Social Impacts of Housing Integration (Chicago: Center for Urban Affairs and Policy Research, Northwestern University, 1990), 8 (report to the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation).

24. See Oscar Lewis, “The Culture of Poverty,” in On Understanding Poverty: Perspectives from the Social Sciences, ed. Daniel P. Moynihan (New York: Basic Books, 1968), 187.

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