Populations at risk in America : vulnerable groups at the end of the twentieth century

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Populations at risk in America : vulnerable groups at the end of the twentieth century

edited by George J. Demko and Michael C. Jackson

Westview Press, c1995

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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  • Beyond "race and culture" - American underclasses in the late-20th century, Jacqueline Jones
  • society at risk in a society of organizations, Charles Perrow
  • social security and the construction of an underclass in the United States, Linda Gordon
  • poverty and public policy in the 1990s, Rebecca Blank
  • inside/outside - the dialectics of homelessness, Jennifer Wolch
  • deviance and human nature, James Q. Wilson
  • mothers at risk - the war on poor women and children, Alexis Jetter et al
  • successful early intervention for children at high risk for failure in school, Craig Ramey and Sharon Landesman Ramey
  • native Americans and the demographic legacy of contact, Russell Thornton
  • sites of danger and risk - African Americans return to the rural South, Carol B. Stack.

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