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- Title: Dark Ghettos
- Author : Tommie Shelby
- Release Date : January 01, 2016
- Genre: Philosophy,Books,Nonfiction,Social Science,Sociology,Politics & Current Events,Public Administration,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 1691 KB
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Why do American ghettos persist? Scholars and commentators often identify some factorâsuch as single motherhood, joblessness, or violent street crimeâas the key to solving the problem and recommend policies accordingly. But, Tommie Shelby argues, these attempts to âfixâ ghettos or âhelpâ their poor inhabitants ignore fundamental questions of justice and fail to see the urban poor as moral agents responding to injustice.
âProvocativeâŠ[Shelby] doesnât lay out a jobs program or a housing initiative. Indeed, as he freely admits, he offers âno new political strategies or policy proposals.â What he aims to do instead is both more abstract and more radical: to challenge the assumption, common to liberals and conservatives alike, that ghettos are âproblemsâ best addressed with narrowly targeted government programs or civic interventions. For Shelby, ghettos are something more troubling and less tractable: symptoms of the âsystemic injusticeâ of the United States. They represent not aberrant dysfunction but the natural workings of a deeply unfair scheme. The only real solution, in this way of thinking, is the âfundamental reform of the basic structure of our society.ââ
âJames Ryerson, New York Times Book Review