Behind Ghetto Walls: Black Families in a Federal Slum
A sociological study of Black families living in the Pruitt-Igoe public housing complex in St. Louis. It follows how poverty shapes family relations, children's socialization, and the order of community life.
Work Information
A book that rethinks urban poverty from the texture of everyday life.
Through fieldwork in Pruitt-Igoe, the book shows empirically how housing policy and racial inequality shape family life. By layering household histories, it reads urban poverty through the meeting point of institutions and everyday experience.
Review Summaries
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Its sharp account of structural poverty is widely appreciated, while the density of the academic prose divides readers on readability.
Book Information
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Published
- 1970-12-31
- Pages
- 446 pages
- Language
- 英語
- Size
- 16.51 x 3.18 x 24.77 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9780202301136
- ISBN-10
- 0202301133
- Price
- 8848 JPY
- Category
- 洋書/Politics & Social Sciences/Social Sciences/Specific Demographics/African American Studies
Black lower class life in the United States is revealed in a study based on case studies of specific families living in a federal housing project.
Reviews
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Behind Ghetto Walls: Black Family Life in a Federal Slum
Mr. Rainwater was such a vibrant force in speaking about the problems that resulted from some of the more infamous Urban Renewal projects. His work in the area probably helped change the way society looks at and deals with housing assistance. He found the few benefits of proximity but exposed the down side. Excellent book. If you are not familiar with what was viewed as assistance and solutions in the middle of the last century, it just might open your eyes a little.
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Good until the end... then
Good sociological study ends with poorly thought out plans