Stuck in Place: Urban Neighborhoods and the End of Progress toward Racial Equality

by Patrick Sharkey

Book Overview

In the 1960s, many believed that the civil rights movement's successes would foster a new era of racial equality in America. Four decades later, the degree of racial inequality has barely changed. To understand what went wrong, Patrick Sharkey argues that we have to understand what has happened to African American communities over the last several decades. In Stuck in Place, Sharkey describes how political decisions and social policies...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226924254
• ISBN13: 9780226924250
• Release Date: April 2013
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.89 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.8" x 8.9"