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Author Warren, Roland L

Title Politics and African-American Ghettos
Published Somerset : Taylor and Francis, 2008

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Description 1 online resource (156 pages)
Contents Cover Page; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Foreword; Introduction; 1 Politics and the Ghetto System; The Ghetto as a Social System; Colonialism, Conspiracy, and Collective Guilt; Neighborhood Autonomy, Black Power, and the Revolutionary Ferment; 2 Politics and Ghetto Perpetuation; Ghetto Leadership Structure; White Flight and Black Control; 3 Social Stability and Black Ghettos; Long's Position; An Assessment of the Theory and the Policies Based on It; Comments: Norton E. Long; 4 The Ghettos and Metropolitan Politics; The Cities and the Suburbs; Crisis in Black and White
Some Signs of Movement5 Fantasy and Reality in the Ghetto Problem; Purgatory-Temporary and Permanent; Alternatives to Current Policy; The Future of the Metropolitan Political System; Comments: Robert C Wood; 6 The States and the Ghettos; The State in Historical Perspective; Poverty and the States; The Potential for State Action; A Program of Improvement; The Credibility Canyon; The Ghetto Tomorrow; Conclusion; 7 The Outlook for Creative Federalism; The Meaning of Federal Democracy; The Negro and the Federal System; The New Concern with Federalism; Developing a Truly Creative Federalism
Toward a Federalism of CommunitiesOld and Nenjo Roles -for the States; 8 Creative Federalism, not Abdication; Comments: Daniel J. Elazar; 9 Federal Agencies, National Associations, and the Politics of Welfare; Importance of the Politics of Welfare; Some Functions of National Associations; Some New Developments in the Politics of Welfare; Conclusion; 10 On Humanizing the Bureaucracies; 11 Colonialism and Liberation as American Problems; America as a Colonial Society; Beyond Traditional Solutions; White Response to Black Protest; Foreign Policy Reflects Colonial Purpose
Revolutionary ConsciousnessThe Relevance of Race; A Program of Self-Determination; The White Community: Transcending Guilt; 12 The Ghettos, the New Left, and Some Dangerous Fallacies; 13 Planning, Politics, and Social Change; Some Needed Steps
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Subject African Americans -- Segregation -- Congresses
African Americans -- Social conditions -- 1964-1975 -- Congresses
Inner cities -- United States -- Congresses
African American neighborhoods -- Congresses
African Americans -- Government policy -- Congresses
African American neighborhoods
African Americans -- Government policy
African Americans -- Segregation
African Americans -- Social conditions
Inner cities
Race relations -- Political aspects
Social policy
SUBJECT United States -- Race relations -- Political aspects -- Congresses
United States -- Social policy -- Congresses
Subject United States
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings
Form Electronic book
Author National Conference on Social Welfare.
ISBN 9781351498548
1351498541