Poverty & Black Liberation

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"This is a study of poverty, official poverty policy, and the politics of Black Liberation--its checkered past and uncertain future. Why did black ghettoes explode in the 1960s, immediately in the wake of the Civil Rights revolution? And why have they failed to explode, at least in the dramatic sense of mass rioting, in the 1980s, when the condition of the black poor in our inner cities seems worse than ever? Is the politics of black liberation dead? or is it ready to re-emerge in a new form? These are questions which we will attempt to touch on in the following pages.

If you hear the phrases "poverty in America," or "the poor," "the underclass," or even "the inner city," and they trigger any mental image, chances are that the image you will form is one of poor Americans who happen to be black. Our stereotyped image of ... "

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