Populations At Risk In America
Vulnerable Groups At The End Of The Twentieth Century
1st Edition
Published on 4. June 2019
186 pages
978-1-000-30773-3 (ISBN)
Description
As this century draws to a close and the new one approaches, the United States is still struggling with serious and persistent social problems. These troubling dilemmas, including poverty, homelessness, discrimination, and severe inequity, afflict some subgroups of the population more than others, and it is the plight of these at-risk groups-childr
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Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Product notice
Reflowable
ISBN-13
978-1-000-30773-3 (9781000307733)
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George J. Demko | Michael C. Jackson
Populations At Risk In America
Vulnerable Groups At The End Of The Twentieth Century
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05/2021
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George J. Demko | Michael C. Jackson
Populations At Risk In America
Vulnerable Groups At The End Of The Twentieth Century
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09/2019
1st Edition
Routledge
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Persons
George J. Demko is professor of geography at Dartmouth College Michael C. Jackson is a practicing psychoanalyst and is a member of the Board of Visitors of the Rockefeller Center for the Social Sciences at Dartmouth.
Content
Preface -- Beyond "Race and Culture": American Underclasses in the Late Twentieth Century -- Society at Risk in a Society of Organizations -- Social Security and the Construction of an Underclass in the United States -- Poverty and Public Policy in the 1990s -- Inside/Outside: The Dialectics of Homelessness -- Deviance and Human Nature -- Mothers at Risk: The War on Poor Women and Children -- Successful Early Interventions for Children at High Risk for Failure in School -- Native Americans and the Demographic Legacy of Contact -- Sites of Danger and Risk: African Americans Return to the Rural South
