The Closing Door: Conservative Policy and Black Opportunity

by Gary Orfield and Carole Ashkinaze

Book Overview

The Closing Door is the first major critique of the effect of conservative policies on urban race and poverty in the 1980s. Atlanta, with its booming economy, strong elected black leadership, and many highly educated blacks, seemed to be the perfect site for those policies and market solutions to prove themselves. Unfortunately, not only did expected economic opportunity fail to materialize but many of the hard-won gains of the civil rights...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226632725
• ISBN13: 9780226632728
• Release Date: May 1991
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 274 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.3"