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The primary purpose of this book is to introduce and question the persistent poverty that exists among African Americans in the United States. It will provide scholars and policy makers with the needed context to understand what constitutes poverty, and how and why African Americans have remained persistently poor and underprivileged in the United States. This book will provide new knowledge that will be useful to improving public policy. This book focuses on the factors that have influenced public policies concerning African Americans.
“This book is a good example of a keen analysis of a concrete problem in a solid theoretical context. The authors study a very acute problem of poverty among African Americans from historical and sociopolitical perspectives and arrive at important reasoned conclusions. The most fundamental among these conclusions is that poverty among African Americans is a systemic problem of the American state and society at large rather than an outcome of any ‘specific features’ of Black Americans as personalities or a community. This makes the book an important addition to the growing set of academic literature on systemic racism as the ‘original sin’ of the United States of America.” —Dmitri M. Bondarenko, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia
Foreword; Introduction; 1. Poverty Means Different Things to Different People What Is Poverty?; 2. What Are the Scholars Saying About Poverty?; 3. History and Responses to the War on Poverty Anti-Poverty Policies; 4. Policy Analysis and Findings; 5. Conclusion; References; Index