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Filled with fascinating insights into the collective emotional life of inner-city kids, this book is also a highly original history of the erosion of urban community life since World War II.

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The Dimensions Of A Historical Tragedy * The Explosion of Inner-City Desperation * The Limits of Alienation Poor Black Children And Americas Grand Delusions * The American Traditions of Poor Black Families * Poor Black Children and American Racism * Poor Black Children and American Abundance * Poor Black Children and American Violence * Conclusion: Toward the Stemming of a Historical Tide

On The Edge

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    A Paperback by Carl H Nightingale

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      Publisher Basic Books
      Published 4 January 1995
      ISBN-13 9780465052196
      978-0465052196
      ISBN-10 0465052193
      Also in:
      Ethnic studies / Ethnicity

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      Filled with fascinating insights into the collective emotional life of inner-city kids, this book is also a highly original history of the erosion of urban community life since World War II.

      Table of Contents

      The Dimensions Of A Historical Tragedy * The Explosion of Inner-City Desperation * The Limits of Alienation Poor Black Children And Americas Grand Delusions * The American Traditions of Poor Black Families * Poor Black Children and American Racism * Poor Black Children and American Abundance * Poor Black Children and American Violence * Conclusion: Toward the Stemming of a Historical Tide

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