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Ivery, Curtis, Ed.; Bassett, Joshua, Ed. – Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2011
Over 40 years ago the historic Kerner Commission Report declared that America was undergoing an urban crisis whose effects were disproportionately felt by underclass populations. In "America's Urban Crisis and the Advent of Color-blind Politics", Curtis Ivery and Joshua Bassett explore the persistence of this crisis today, despite public…
Descriptors: Ethnicity, Civil Rights, Democracy, Correctional Institutions
Harris, Fred R., Ed.; Wilkins, Roger W., Ed. – 1988
This book grew out of the national conference "The Kerner Commission: Twenty Years Later." The Kerner Commission found in its 1968 Report that America was moving toward two separate and unequal societies, divided along racial lines, and that major efforts to combat poverty, unemployment, and racism were mandated. The essays in this book…
Descriptors: American Indians, Blacks, Economically Disadvantaged, Equal Opportunities (Jobs)