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American Apartheid: Segregation and the Making of the Underclass 1st Paperback Edition

by Douglas S. Massey (Author), Nancy A. Denton (Author)

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This powerful and disturbing book clearly links persistent poverty among blacks in the United States to the unparalleled degree of deliberate segregation they experience in American cities.

American Apartheid shows how the black ghetto was created by whites during the first half of the twentieth century in order to isolate growing urban black populations. It goes on to show that, despite the Fair Housing Act of 1968, segregation is perpetuated today through an interlocking set of individual actions, institutional practices, and governmental policies. In some urban areas the degree of black segregation is so intense and occurs in so many dimensions simultaneously that it amounts to "hypersegregation."

The authors demonstrate that this systematic segregation of African Americans leads inexorably to the creation of underclass communities during periods of economic downturn. Under conditions of extreme segregation, any increase in the overall rate of black poverty yields a marked increase in the geographic concentration of indigence and the deterioration of social and economic conditions in black communities. As ghetto residents adapt to this increasingly harsh environment under a climate of racial isolation, they evolve attitudes, behaviors, and practices that further marginalize their neighborhoods and undermine their chances of success in mainstream American society. This book is a sober challenge to those who argue that race is of declining significance in the United States today.

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January 1, 1993
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"During the 1970s and 1980s a word disappeared from the American vocabulary," begins American Apartheid ". . . That word was segregation." But the practice of segregation certainly has not disappeared, as Douglas S. Massey and Nancy A. Denton glaringly expose. One-third of all American blacks live in one of just 16 urban areas, in neighborhoods so racially segregated they have almost no chance at interracial contact. The authors argue that segregation--and disassocation from not only other cultures, but other ways of life--is at the root of many problems facing African-Americans today.

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A major contribution to our understanding of both racism and poverty. One hopes that the book will be read, not only by other scholars and policy analysts, but by a broad spectrum of citizens and by all the leaders of the nation.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Harvard University Press; 1st Paperback Edition (January 1, 1993)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 312 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0674018214
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0674018211
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 12 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.14 x 0.78 x 9.25 inches

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Douglas S. Massey is the Henry G. Bryant Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. Formerly he was the Dorothy Swaine Thomas Professor and Chair of Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania. He is co-author of American Apartheid (Harvard University Press, 1993), which won the Distinguished Publication Award of the American Sociological Association. He has written widely on topics pertaining to race, segregation, and social inequality. In addition to his American Apartheid, his books include Categorically Unequal and Spheres of Influence (both published by the Russell Sage Foundation) as well as Climbing Mount Laurel (Princeton University Press), which won the Paul Davidoff Award from the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning.

Massey has also published extensively on Mexican immigration, including the books Return to Aztlan (University of California Press, 1987) and Miracles on the Border (University of Arizona Press, 1995). The latter book, co-authored with Jorge Durand, won a 1996 Southwest Book Award. Also coauthored with Jorge Durand are the books Crossing the Border (Russell Sage Foundation, 2004) and Beyond Smoke and Mirrors (Russell Sage Foundation 2002). The latter won the 2004 Otis Dudley Duncan Award for the best book in social demography. His most recent book on immigration is Brokered Boundaries, coauthored with Magaly Sanchez (Russell Sage Foundation 2010).

Massey has also served on the faculty of the University of Chicago where he directed its Latin American Studies Center and Population Research Center. He is also formerly a director of the University of Pennsylvania's Population Studies Center and chair of its Graduate Group in Demography. During 1979 and 1980 he undertook postdoctoral research at the University of California at Berkeley and Princeton University, where he received his Ph.D. in 1978. Massey is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, and the Academia Europea. He is Past-President of the Population Association of America, the American Sociological Association, and the American Academy of Political and Social Science.

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Cee Bee

Eye opening book

Reviewed in the United States on May 16, 2020

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Massey and Denton provide a detailed look into the discrimination that developed within the housing market. This book also explains HOW and WHY such egregious practices came about. EXCELLENT READ!!

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Binnie1

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Reviewed in the United States on May 25, 2016

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American Apartheid is brilliantly written and exposes the evil of housing segregation in this country. The facts are stunning and disturbing. You can clearly see some of the causes of inequality and the wealth gap. American Apartheid is referenced frequently in books, articles, and bibliographies. This is one of the most important and eye-opening books I have ever read. It is a must-read and I highly recommend it.

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Dexter Sims

Great Book

Reviewed in the United States on December 29, 2015

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One of the best books that I've ever read about racial residential segregation in the USA. If you want to know how racial residential segregation came to be, how and why it has been so destructive for black people, and how it continues to persist despite the end of legal segregation, then this is the book for you

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Arnie Tracey

Brilliant

Reviewed in the United States on June 3, 2010

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"American Apartheid" is excellent.

It pulls back the curtain on the real-estate industry's malfeasance vis-a-vis black Americans. And, more importantly, it reveals the systemic collusion of local, state and federal gov't in said matter. All of them acted as "dis"-honest brokers who, for half a century, targeted blacks for ghetto-ization in the form of urban (Indian-like) reservations.

Housing discrimination - A metastatic aspect of racism which has befouled the land for 145 years.

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Osiris

. Humanity will drip like water to a rock an eventually prevail!

Reviewed in the United States on June 21, 2019

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This is a comprehensive, yet snapshot, of America’s contempt for the global majority and how she is hell bent on sustained hate of others.

Reviewed in the United States on August 29, 2013

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The first few of chapters of American Apartheid are very thought provoking. It negates any illusion of a harmonious society of equality for all ethnicities in America.

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Gene Betit

Five Stars

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Documents facts we all want to deny. Essential.

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