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“mary pattillo”

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  • Black Picket Fences

    Privilege & Peril among the Black Middle Class

    by Mary Pattillo ...
    First published in 1999, Mary Pattillo's Black Picket Fences explores an American demographic group too often ignored by both scholars and the media: the black middle class. Nearly fifteen years later, this book remains a groundbreaking study of a group still underrepresented in the academic and public spheres. The result of living for three years in "Groveland," a black middle-class neighborhood ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Black Metropolis

    A Study of Negro Life in a Northern City

    by St. Clair Drake, Horace R. Cayton ...
    Ground-breaking when first published in 1945, Black Metropolis remains a landmark study of race and urban life. Few studies since have been able to match its scope and magnitude, offering one of the most comprehensive looks at black life in America. Based on research conducted by Works Progress Administration field workers, it is a sweeping historical and sociological account of the people of ... Read more

    $17.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Black on the Block

    The Politics of Race and Class in the City

    by Mary Pattillo ...
    In Black on the Block, Mary Pattillo—a Newsweek Woman of the 21st Century—uses the historic rise, alarming fall, and equally dramatic renewal of Chicago’s North Kenwood–Oakland neighborhood to explore the politics of race and class in contemporary urban America.There was a time when North Kenwood–Oakland was plagued by gangs, drugs, violence, and the font of poverty from which they sprang. But in ... Read more

    $20.19 USD

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    **#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Evicted reimagines the debate on poverty, making a “provocative and compelling” (NPR) argument about why it persists in America: because the rest of us benefit from it.A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New Yorker, The New York Times Book Review, NPR, Oprah Daily, Time, The Star Tribune, Vulture, The Christian Science Monitor, Chicago ... Read more

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  • Economic Facts and Fallacies

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    by Thomas Sowell ...
    From renowned economist Thomas Sowell, an indispensable examination of widespread economic fallacies**"From one of America's most noted conservative economists, a short, original book that offers some unconventional ideas about how to think about common economic topics." ―**Baltimore SunIn Economic Facts and Fallacies, Thomas Sowell exposes some of the most popular fallacies about economic issues ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • How to Kill a City

    Gentrification, Inequality, and the Fight for the Neighborhood

    by PE Moskowitz ...
    “An exacting look at gentrification” (New York Times Book Review)—and the lives devastated in the processThe term gentrification has become a buzzword to describe the changes in urban neighborhoods across the country, but we don’t realize just how threatening it is. It means more than the arrival of trendy shops, much-maligned hipsters, and expensive lattes. The very future of American cities as ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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  • Disintegration

    by Eugene Robinson ...
    Instead of one black America, today there are four.“There was a time when there were agreed-upon 'black leaders,' when there was a clear 'black agenda,' when we could talk confidently about 'the state of black America'—but not anymore.” —from DisintegrationThe African American population in the United States has always been seen as a single entity: a “Black America” with unified interests and ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Next Hundred Million

    America in 2050

    by Joel Kotkin ...
    Visionary social thinker Joel Kotkin looks ahead to America in 2050, revealing how the addition of one hundred million Americans by midcentury will transform how we all live, work, and prosper.In stark contrast to the rest of the world's advanced nations, the United States is growing at a record rate and, according to census projections, will be home to four hundred million Americans by 2050. This ... Read more

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  • The Great Divergence

    America's Growing Inequality Crisis and What We Can Do about It

    by Timothy Noah ...
    For the past three decades, America has steadily become a nation of haves and have-nots. Our incomes are increasingly unequal. This steady growing apart is often mentioned as a troubling indicator by scholars and policy analysts, though seldom addressed by politicians. What economics Nobelist Paul Krugman terms "the Great Divergence" has till now been treated as little more than a talking point, a ... Read more

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  • The South Side

    A Portrait of Chicago and American Segregation

    by Natalie Y. Moore ...
    **One of Buzzfeed's 18 Best Nonfiction Books Of 2016**A lyrical, intelligent, authentic, and necessary look at the intersection of race and class in Chicago, a Great American CityIn this intelligent and highly important narrative, Chicago-native Natalie Moore shines a light on contemporary segregation in the city's South Side; with a memoirist's eye, she showcases the lives of these communities ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

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  • Please Stop Helping Us

    How Liberals Make It Harder for Blacks to Succeed

    by Jason L. Riley ...
    Why is it that so many efforts by liberals to lift the black underclass not only fail, but often harm the intended beneficiaries?In Please Stop Helping Us, Jason L. Riley examines how well-intentioned welfare programs are in fact holding black Americans back. Minimum-wage laws may lift earnings for people who are already employed, but they price a disproportionate number of blacks out of the labor ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

  • The Assassination of New York

    by Robert Fitch ...
    Series Book 8 - Forbidden Bookshelf
    The story of how the richest city in the world became one of the poorest in North America, with a new introduction by Peter KwongHow did New York City come to be a network of steel towers, banks, and nail salons, with chain drugstores on every block—a place where, increasingly, no one can afford to live except the lords of Wall Street and foreign billionaires, and where more and more of the Big ... Read more

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