Locked in the Poorhouse by Fred R Harris

Locked in the Poorhouse by Fred R Harris

Poverty in the United States is worse than it was 30 years ago when the original Kerner Commission Report was issued: The poor get poorer even in the midst of a U.S. economic boom, the country is resegregating, and poor African-Americans and Hispanics are becoming concentrated in cities from which it is even harder to escape. This book shows what works and what doesn't in dealing with these problems and offers practical policy recommendations for changing America's present course.

In the aftermath of urban disorders in scores of US. cities between 1965 and 1967, President Johnson convened the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders, commonly known as the Kerner Commission... Locked in the Poorhouse is an assessment of what has happened in the ensuing three decades. Contributors, many of them well-known and respected scholars, show that the conditions that gave rise to the riots of the 1960s have grown worse... Several of the contributors point to the indifference and inaction of the federal government in furthering these destructive trends. The final chapter by Lynn A. Curtis contains a series of intelligent recommendations on how to reverse course, along with a discussion of obstacles that must be overcome and how to fund the programs and policies he recommends. CHOICE Provides both a good history leading to the Kerner Commission and a good review of what has transpired in the intervening years. -- Patricia W. Ivry Families In Society:S Journal Of Contemporary Social Sciences This well-researched collection of essays is recommended for university courses concerned with race, poverty, and urban problems. -- John W. Critzer, Southern Connecticut State University Ethnic and Racial Studies A compilation of essays by noted experts. America @ Work Locked in the Poorhouse is an impressive and scholarly collection of writings and essays examining American cultural and economic conditions which have given rise to incidents of urban social unrest in the past. This book is very highly recommended and thoughtful reading for students of Urban Studies, Black Studies, and the study of American race relations as impacted by the 1968 Kerner Commission report. Midwest Book Review Fred Harris and Lynn Curtis have done us a great service by compelling us again to look unflinchingly into the heart of the American dilemma. This book is strong, pragmatic, eloquent, courageous, and unfashionably persistent in pursuing answers to the unresolved agenda of our incomplete and deeply compromised democracy. Enormously important. -- Jonathan Kozol, Acclaimed American Author Of Death At An Early Age This volume, with contributions from a cluster of the most progressive social scientists in the U.S., charts what went wrong in the 30 years since the Kerner report's publication. The contributors outline their own bold programme for the future. These are as progressive a set of policies as we have heard in a long while. Community Care This book is well-organized and the nine chapters provide evidence to support the major thesis. It is well-researched and readers will have no difficulty in following the main ideas in each chapter which brings home to the reader the true situation of the various racial and ethnic groups in America. The bibliography is comprehensive and appropriate quotations are used to support points where necessary. The book gives valuable insight into the causes of poverty, inequality, exclusion and oppression. In addition, it points to methods, policy and programmes to deal with the problems of inner cites and equality of opportunities particularly in multi racial communities. Social and Economic Studies

Fred R. Harris is a former U.S. Senator from Oklahoma and a former member of the Kerner Commission. He is currently professor of political science at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque and has authored or edited fifteen books including Quiet Riots: Race and Poverty in the United States. Lynn A. Curtis is president of the Milton S. Eisenhower Foundation, the 'keeper of the flame' for the work begun by the Kerner Commission in 1968. He is a former urban policy advisor to the U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, former director of President Carter's Urban and Regional Policy Group, and author or editor of nine books. He is based in Washington D.C.

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ISBN 10	0742509044
Title	Locked in the Poorhouse
Author	Fred R Harris
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Rowman & Littlefield
Year published	2000-07-05
Number of pages	200
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