American Project: The Rise and Fall of a Modern Ghetto (Revised) by William Julius Wilson, Sudhir Venkatesh

American Project: The Rise and Fall of a Modern Ghetto (Revised)

William Julius Wilson, Sudhir Venkatesh

360 pages • first pub 2000 (view editions)

nonfiction history sociology challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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High-rise public housing developments were signature features of the post-World War II city. A hopeful experiment in providing temporary, inexpensive housing for all Americans, the "projects" soon became synonymous with the black urban poor, with ...

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