04792nam 22007094a 450 991034510280332120200520144314.01-282-15807-497866121580701-4008-2551-210.1515/9781400825516(CKB)1000000000788476(EBL)457700(OCoLC)436057779(SSID)ssj0000269480(PQKBManifestationID)11231319(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000269480(PQKBWorkID)10243309(PQKB)11687665(MdBmJHUP)muse36363(DE-B1597)446317(OCoLC)979834598(DE-B1597)9781400825516(Au-PeEL)EBL457700(CaPaEBR)ebr10312445(MiAaPQ)EBC457700(EXLCZ)99100000000078847620020805d2003 uy 0engur|||||||nn|ntxtccrA way out America's ghettos and the legacy of racism /Owen Fiss ; edited by Joshua Cohen, Jefferson Decker, and Joel RogersCore TextbookPrinceton, N.J. Princeton University Pressc20031 online resource (141 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-691-08881-0 Includes bibliographical references and index. Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- PART I -- What Should Be Done for Those Who Have Been Left Behind? / Fiss, Owen -- PART II -- Down by Law / Ford, Richard -- Communities, Capital, and Conflicts / Meares, Tracey L. -- Better Neighborhoods? / Coles, Robert -- Beyond Moralizing / Thompson, J. Phillip -- Creating Options / Hochschild, Jennifer -- Exit and Redevelopment / Orfield, Gary -- Relocation Works / Rosenbaum, James E. -- Unlikely Times / Polikoff, Alexander -- Against Social Engineering / Sleeper, Jim -- If Baldwin Could Speak / Gregory, Steven -- PART III -- A Task Unfinished / Fiss, Owen -- Notes on the Contributors -- IndexAfter decades of hand-wringing and well-intentioned efforts to improve inner cities, ghettos remain places of degrading poverty with few jobs, much crime, failing schools, and dilapidated housing. Stepping around fruitless arguments over whether or not ghettos are dysfunctional communities that exacerbate poverty, and beyond modest proposals to ameliorate their problems, one of America's leading experts on civil rights gives us a stunning but commonsensical solution: give residents the means to leave. Inner cities, writes Owen Fiss, are structures of subordination. The only way to end the poverty they transmit across generations is to help people move out of them--and into neighborhoods with higher employment rates and decent schools. Based on programs tried successfully in Chicago and elsewhere, Fiss's proposal is for a provocative national policy initiative that would give inner-city residents rent vouchers so they can move to better neighborhoods. This would end at last the informal segregation, by race and income, of our metropolitan regions. Given the government's role in creating and maintaining segregation, Fiss argues, justice demands no less than such sweeping federal action. To sample the heated controversy that Fiss's ideas will ignite, the book includes ten responses from scholars, journalists, and practicing lawyers. Some endorse Fiss's proposal in general terms but take issue with particulars. Others concur with his diagnosis of the problem but argue that his policy response is wrongheaded. Still others accuse Fiss of underestimating the internal strength of inner-city communities as well as the hostility of white suburbs. Fiss's bold views should set off a debate that will help shape urban social policy into the foreseeable future. It is indispensable reading for anyone interested in social justice, domestic policy, or the fate of our cities.Social problemsUnited StatesInner citiesGovernment policyUnited StatesUrban poorGovernment policyUnited StatesOccupational mobilityUnited StatesSocial problemsInner citiesGovernment policyUrban poorGovernment policyOccupational mobility361.1/0973Fiss Owen M1054634Cohen Joshua1951-863413Decker Jefferson1054635Rogers Joel1952-863414MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910345102803321A way out2487423UNINA