Contents
Foreword
Preface
l. Meditations on Integration
Part One: Class Analysis
2. The Underclass and the Race/Class Issue
3. Agency and the Concept of the Underclass
Part Two: Urban Values
4. The Black Underclass and the Question of Values
5. Marooned in America: Black Urban Youth Culture and Social Pathology
6. Uplifting the Race: Middle-Class Blacks and the Truly Disadvantaged
Part Three: Social Policy
7. Legal Rights for Poor Blacks
8. Affirmative Action and the Urban Underclass
9. Social Policy, Ethical Life, and the Urban Underclass
Epilogue: Back on the Block
10. Philosophy and the Urban Underclass
About the Contributors
Index