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Title:

Populations at risk in America : vulnerable groups at the end of the twentieth century / edited by George J. Demko and Michael C. Jackson.

Publisher:

Westview Press,

Copyright Date:

1995

Description:

xiii, 186 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Marginality, Social--United States--History--20th century.
Socially handicapped--United States--History--20th century.
Homelessness--United States--History--20th century.
Poor--United States--History--20th century.

Other Authors:

Demko, George J., 1933-
Jackson, Michael C.

Notes:

"A publication of the Nelson A. Rockefeller Center for the Social Sciences at Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire." Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

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.

ISBN:

9780813389462 (alk. paper)
0813389461 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)32551249

LCCN:

95009221

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)