Proceedings, American Philosophical Society (vol. 136, no. 3)

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By Susan Babbitt (ed)
Year: 1992
Pages: 135
Binding Paperback

Product Code: 1422370224

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Contents: (1) Symposium on the Underclass: Intro., by William Golden; The Plight of the Inner-City Black Male, by William Julius Wilson; To Change a City, by Leon Lederman; Interventions for Education and Health in Very Poor Communities, by David Hamburg; and Promoting Useful Knowledge, by Walter Massey. (2) The Austin Project, by W.W. and Elspeth Rostow; Preface -- Letter from Mayor Bruce Todd; Reflections on How to Bring People in the Disadvantaged Communities into the Mainstream; Joint Announcement of the Austin Project; The Underclass: An Overview, by Isabel Sawhill; The Underclass: Toward a Post-Industrial Social Policy, by Daniel Moynihan; two articles on America’s Blacks from “The Economist”; and The Functional Underclass, by John Galbraith. (3) Bio. Memoirs for: Marie-Therese d’Alverny, Edoardo Amaldi, Fred Russell Eggan, Sir Peter Brian Medawar, Lord Penney, and Edwin O. Reischauer.

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