Books about American Ghettos

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Poverty and place
Paul A. Jargowsky

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Making the Second Ghetto: Race and Housing in Chicago, 1940-1960
Arnold R. Hirsch

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Harlem; the making of a ghetto
Gilbert Osofsky

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Urban Grit: A Guide to Street Lit
Megan Honig

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Black metropolis
St. Clair Drake

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Ghettoside: A True Story of Murder in America
Jill Leovy

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From Ghetto to Death Camp: A Memoir of Privilege and Luck
Timothy Braatz

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Ghetto: The History of a Word
Daniel B Schwartz

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Dark ghetto: dilemmas of social power
Kenneth Clark

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Ghettos, Tramps, and Welfare Queens: Down and Out on the Silver Screen
Stephen Pimpare

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The Products of the American Ghetto
Tierre F. Ford

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Slipping Into Darkness : My Survival in America's Most Violent Ghetto...a true story
M. Rutledge McCall

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Ghettonation
Cora Daniels

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Living Black: Social Life in an African American Neighborhood
Mark S. Fleisher

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The Truly Disadvantaged
William Julius Wilson

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Making the Second Ghetto: Race and Housing in Chicago 1940-1960
Arnold R. Hirsch

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The Racial Contract
Charles W. Mills

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Urban Outcasts: A Comparative Sociology of Advanced Marginality
Loïc Wacquant

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The New American Ghetto
Camilo José Vergara

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The Promised Land: The Great Black Migration and How It Changed America
Nicholas Lemann

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