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Overview"The black ghetto is a byproduct of American social policy. It came into being within policies that were adopted - deliberately or inadvertently - and will persist, in the absence of drastic changes in policy. ""Politics and the Ghettos"" searches out the policy-making processes that have created the ghetto and that maintain it. Roland L. Warren has assembled, in this volume, the work of researchers who examine complex forces and counter forces which result in perpetuating in our cities areas in which poverty, poor housing, inadequate education, and involuntary segregation converge to form a black ghetto.This work present a variety of points of view, strongly held and at times hotly contested, searching out the relevant policymaking processes in various sectors and levels of American society. For example, Norton Long discusses the ghetto's particular failing: a social and political structure based on lower-class culture and lacking strong middle-class leaders.Roland Warren suggests that the ""ghetto system"" does not make the individual part of the larger society, but causes people to view it with fear and anger. Robert Wood examines the way big-city policy is made - or left unmade - in regard to ghettos. Charles Adrian discusses the relation of state governments to city ghettos. Daniel Elazar asserts that the current ferment for local control is a return to sound principles of American federalism based on ""noncentralization, territorial democracy, and partnership."" Charles Schottland documents the role of giant bureaucracies - in the federal government and in nongovernmental organizations in influencing social welfare policy. Whitney Young, Jr., indicates political pathways open to those who desire an active part in attacking the ghetto system.This provocative work raises disturbing questions having to do with the processes through which American ghettos are created and sustained, processes that must be altered if problems inherent in the black ghetto are to be attacked effectively. For concerned students, scholars, and laymen, it affords new insights into the phenomenon of the contemporary African-American network and its perplexing durability." Full Product DetailsAuthor: Roland L. WarrenPublisher: Taylor & Francis Inc Imprint: AldineTransaction Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.362kg ISBN: 9780202362120ISBN 10: 0202362124 Pages: 224 Publication Date: 15 August 2008 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of Contents1: Politics and the Ghetto System; 2: Politics and Ghetto Perpetuation; 3: Social Stability and Black Ghettos; Comments: Norton E. Long; 4: The Ghettos and Metropolitan Politics; 5: Fantasy and Reality in the Ghetto Problem; Comments: Robert C Wood; 6: The States and the Ghettos; 7: The Outlook for Creative Federalism; 8: Creative Federalism, not Abdication; Comments: Daniel J. Elazar; 9: Federal Agencies, National Associations, and the Politics of Welfare; 10: On Humanizing the Bureaucracies; 11: Colonialism and Liberation as American Problems; 12: The Ghettos, the New Left, and Some Dangerous Fallacies; 13: Planning, Politics, and Social ChangeReviewsAuthor InformationRoland L. Warren is professor emeritus at the Heller School of Social Policy and Management at Brandeis University. He holds a Career Scientist Award from the National Institute of Mental Health and was a Guggenheim Fellow in community affairs in Stuttgart, Germany. Warren has published many scholarly articles and several books in the areas of community and planned social change. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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