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Cities in America are becoming poorhouses for blacks and Hispanics, and city life incubates hopelessness borne of un- and underemployment, criminal victimization and racial discrimination, especially against non-white males. In an update of the original Kerner Commission report, the authors presented here examine what works and what doesn't in solving the problems of minority in the city. To close what has been called the millennium breach between and among the races, it argues that we as a society must re-commit ourselves to basic principles and public and private programmes geared toward more and better jobs, employment training, early childhood education and quality care, inner city economic development, and crime and drug prevention, among other priorities essential to improving the quality of life for all in American cities.

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Provides both a good history leading to the Kerner Commission and a good review of what has transpired in the intervening years.--Patricia W. Ivry Families In Society

This well-researched collection of essays is recommended for university courses concerned with race, poverty, and urban problems.--John W. Critzer Ethnic and Racial Studies

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Fred R. Harris is a former U.S. Senator from Oklahoma and a former member of the Kerner Commission. He is currently professor of political science at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque and has authored or edited fifteen books including Quiet Riots: Race and Poverty in the United States. Lynn A. Curtis is president of the Milton S. Eisenhower Foundation, the 'keeper of the flame' for the work begun by the Kerner Commission in 1968. He is a former urban policy advisor to the U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, former director of President Carter's Urban and Regional Policy Group, and author or editor of nine books. He is based in Washington D.C.

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