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Rubinowitz, Leonard S.; Rosenbaum, James E.

 
9780226730899: Crossing the Class and Color Lines: From Public Housing to White Suburbia
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ISBN 10: 0226730891 ISBN 13: 9780226730899
Editorial: University of Chicago Press, 2000

Sinopsis

In the United States, it is rare that people of different races and social classes live together in the same housing developments and neighbourhoods. The Gautreaux programme, one of the most innovative and extensive court-ordered desegregation efforts ever, in which thousands of low-income, African-American families voluntarily moved from Chicago's inner city to mostly white, middle-class suburbs, was specifically designed to help redress this problem. This is the story of this unique experiment in racial, social and economic integration that began in 1976 and ended only last year. The book tells of the Gautreaux families' initial discomfort and of the discrimination they felt. Yet it also relates how, against the odds, their lives changed for the better, in employment and education, exploding the notion that poor, inner-city blacks cannot escape the "culture of poverty". Today, with vouchers and certificates replacing public housing, the Gautreaux success story is the most valuable record of the possibilities and limitations of mobility programmes.

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Leonard S. Rubinowitz is a professor at the Northwestern University School of Law.

James E. Rosenbaum is a professor of sociology, education, and social policy and a faculty fellow of the Institute for Policy Research at Northwestern University.

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Editorial
University of Chicago Press
Año de publicación
2000
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0226730891
ISBN 13 
9780226730899
Encuadernación
Tapa dura
Número de páginas
256
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