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  • American Apartheid

    Segregation and the Making of the Underclass

    by Douglas S. Massey, Nancy A. Denton ...
    This powerful and disturbing book clearly links persistent poverty among blacks in the United States to the unparalleled degree of deliberate segregation they experience in American cities.American Apartheid shows how the black ghetto was created by whites during the first half of the twentieth century in order to isolate growing urban black populations. It goes on to show that, despite the Fair ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

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    Understanding Immigrant Fathers in North America

    by Carl F. Auerbach, James D. Bachmeier, John W. Berry, Scott Coltrane, Jeffrey Cookston, Roberto M. De Anda, Uwe Gielen, Donald J. Hernandez, Ronit Kahana Kalman, Akira Kanatsu, Eunjung Kim, Michael E. Lamb, Suzanne E. Macartney, Alfredo Mirandé, Erika Y. Niwa, Ross D. Parke, Aris Peguero, Norma Perez-Brena, Joseph H. Pleck, Sara Tocher Rosse, Louise Bordeaux Silverstein, Yanjie Su, Catherine S. Tamis-LeMonda, Eric Vega, Carrie Z. Woldenberg, Hiro Yoshikawa, Ruth Chu-Lien Chao, Nancy A. Denton ...
    Over the past several decades, researchers as well as social policymakers and educators have acknowledged the importance that fathers play in their children's lives. A good deal of research on fathering has been conducted among Euro-American families in North America. However, our understanding of fathering across various ethnic groups remains limited. Throughout Canada and the United States, the ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

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    American Apartheid

    Segregation and the Making of the Underclass

    by Douglas S. Massey, Nancy A. Denton ...
    Narrated by James Anderson Foster ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 42 min

    American Apartheid shows how the black ghetto was created by whites during the first half of the twentieth century in order to isolate growing urban black populations. It goes on to show that, despite the Fair Housing Act of 1968, segregation is perpetuated today through an interlocking set of individual actions, institutional practices, and governmental policies. In some urban areas the degree of ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

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    Also available as: eBook

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  • La Familia

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  • Forgotten Families

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    Tony was taken in at the age of three by Mary Hynes and Janet Simons, after being separated from his mother, who suffered from schizophrenia. After that time, he was shuffled in and out of his grandmothers home before being placed in an orphanage, where he remained for one year. After a tumultuous court battle, he went home with the only two women brave enough to raise him. However, neither he nor ... Read more

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